Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Axiom, Grandma

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

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

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

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

14.

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

Brown, Les

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Bradbury, Ray

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Johnson, John

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Kafka, Franz

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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 makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Smith, Frederick

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Bible