Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Dale, Stan

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.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Emily Dickinson

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Dryden, John

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Downes, Donald

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

Northcote, James

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Bryant, Jean

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Johnson, John

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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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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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.