Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Johnson, John

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

Craig, Roger

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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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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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

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bible

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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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

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Brown, Les

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter