Motivational Quotes

Fear

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

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

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dale, Stan

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

Smith, Frederick

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Craig, Roger

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

George Carlin

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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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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Taylor Swift

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Davis, Elmer

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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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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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is what kills us.