Motivational Quotes

Fear

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Northcote, James

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

21.

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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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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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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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

25.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Edmund Burke

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

Bryant, Jean

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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

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Dale, Stan

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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 is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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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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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

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.