Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Proverb, Moorish

Best Quotes about Fear

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Dale, Stan

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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 is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Shakespeare, William

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

20.

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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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

George Carlin

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Eric Schmidt

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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 a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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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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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Taylor Swift

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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