Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Smith, Frederick

Best Quotes about Fear

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emily Dickinson

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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.

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

Ann Radcliffe

10.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

11.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

George Carlin

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

26.

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

27.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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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

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

Axiom, Grandma

30.

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

31.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Johnson, John

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Bryant, 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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Renard, Jules

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe