Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Scheele, Paul R.

Best Quotes about Fear

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Smith, Frederick

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Shakespeare, William

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Moorish

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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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 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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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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 can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert