Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Dale, Stan

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

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

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Johnson, John

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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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.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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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 proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Edmund Burke

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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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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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 not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

Patton, George S.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon