Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Scheele, Paul R.

Best Quotes about Fear

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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

Johnson, John

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Downes, Donald

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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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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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Taylor Swift

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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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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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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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