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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Francis Quarles

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Dryden, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

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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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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 not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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

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

Taylor Swift

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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 has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Johnson, John

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.