Motivational Quotes

Fear

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

- Foreman, Ed

Best Quotes about Fear

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

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Bryant, Jean

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

Proverb, Moorish

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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.

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

Davis, Elmer

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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

11.

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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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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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Johnson, John

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Theodosia Garrison

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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 very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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 is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Bible

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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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

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

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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