Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Smith, Frederick

Best Quotes about Fear

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Epictetus

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Seneca

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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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

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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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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.