Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Fear

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

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Dale, Stan

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.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

George Carlin

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

Dyson, Freeman

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bible

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Johnson, John

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

Seneca

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

Taylor Swift

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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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

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Lincoln, Abraham