Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Theodosia Garrison

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Smith, Frederick

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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

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

Dryden, John

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.