Motivational Quotes

Fear

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

- Bryant, Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

10.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

11.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

12.

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

13.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

14.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

15.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

16.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

17.

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

18.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

19.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

20.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

25.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

31.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

32.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

33.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

36.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

37.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

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

Johnson, John

41.

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

Bible

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

43.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

49.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

50.

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan