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

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dryden, John

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

Nightingale, Florence

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

George Carlin

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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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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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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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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