Motivational Quotes

Fear

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Bible

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

Axiom, Grandma

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Seneca

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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 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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca