Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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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 met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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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

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

George Carlin

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

Seneca

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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