Motivational Quotes

Fear

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Fear

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.