Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

King, Billie Jean

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Seneca

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Downes, Donald

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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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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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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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.

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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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

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William