Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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

Axiom, Grandma

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Epictetus

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Taylor Swift

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Proverb, Moorish

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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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

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

King, Billie Jean

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.