Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Kafka, Franz

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Patton, George S.

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

Paul, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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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 is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Northcote, James

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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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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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Johnson, John

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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.