Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear the man who fears you.

- Proverb, Hasidic

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Craig, Roger

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

14.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Johnson, John

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Kafka, Franz

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Renard, Jules

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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 is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear is the biggest motivator.