Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Renard, Jules

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

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.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Seneca

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

Taylor Swift

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

Downes, Donald

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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 is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Johnson, John

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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

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Northcote, James

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Anderson, Marian

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Bible

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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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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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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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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