Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Scheele, Paul R.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

George Carlin

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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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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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is what kills us.

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

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Renard, Jules

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

Ferdinand Foch

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Downes, Donald

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius