Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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 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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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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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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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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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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 are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Paul, 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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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 met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Brown, Les

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Taylor Swift

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

Patton, George S.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb