Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Dale, Stan

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Foreman, Ed

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bible

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

10.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

12.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?