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

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Theodosia Garrison

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Paul, Jean

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Johnson, John

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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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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Seneca

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.