Motivational Quotes

Fear

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

George Carlin

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

10.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

11.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Johnson, John

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

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Proverb, Hasidic

29.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

36.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

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