Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Brown, Les

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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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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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Davis, Elmer

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Eric Schmidt

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Edmund Burke

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

Bible

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.