Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Johnson, Samuel

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Downes, Donald

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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.

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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