Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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!!

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Eric Schmidt

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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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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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Paul, Jean

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Shakespeare, William

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Downes, Donald

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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