Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Nixon, Richard M.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Anderson, Marian

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

King, Billie Jean

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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 conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Downes, Donald

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Axiom, Grandma

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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 worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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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