Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Fear

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Nightingale, Florence

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Shakespeare, William

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Seneca

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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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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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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