Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Northcote, James

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Anderson, Marian

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is what kills us.

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Seneca

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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.

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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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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert