Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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

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

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Patton, George S.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius 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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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

18.

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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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

Foreman, Ed

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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 no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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.

27.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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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

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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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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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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic