Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Taylor Swift

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

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.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Seneca

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Northcote, James

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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

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

Ferdinand Foch

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, John

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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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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

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Proverb, Moorish

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