Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Smith, Frederick

Best Quotes about Fear

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor Swift

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Renard, Jules

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Epictetus

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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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

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

George Carlin

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

King, Billie Jean

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Bryant, Jean

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Davis, Elmer

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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 only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.