Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Emily Dickinson

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb, Hasidic

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bradley, Francis H.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Dale, Stan

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Carnegie, Dale

34.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Dryden, John

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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

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Taylor Swift

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Brown, Les