Motivational Quotes

Fear

Great fear is concealed under daring.

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

Fear is what kills us.

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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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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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

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Paul, Jean

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Patton, George S.

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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 makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe