Motivational Quotes

Fear

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Maclaine, Shirley

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Ferdinand Foch

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.

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

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

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

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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 is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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

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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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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Paul, Jean

40.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Bible

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

Colton, Charles Caleb