Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear guides more than gratitude.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Patton, George S.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Paul, Jean

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

Kafka, Franz

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Eric Schmidt

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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 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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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 who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Davis, Elmer

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Seneca

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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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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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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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

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

Epictetus

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Anderson, Marian

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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