Motivational Quotes

Fear

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Fear

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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.

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

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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Bradley, Francis H.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, John

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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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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 is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Eric Schmidt

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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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 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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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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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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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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