Motivational Quotes

Fear

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Fear

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

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

Proverb, Hasidic

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Northcote, James

11.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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

Bradbury, Ray

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

28.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Shakespeare, William

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Smith, Frederick

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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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.

39.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dale, Stan

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

46.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.