Motivational Quotes

Fear

I have a fear of failure.

- Montana, Joe

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Northcote, James

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

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

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

10.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

11.

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

George Carlin

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Johnson, John

23.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Carnegie, Dale

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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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.

30.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

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

Theodosia Garrison

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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Fear is what kills us.

39.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

40.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Eric Schmidt

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Downes, Donald

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

Johnson, Samuel