Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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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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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Downes, Donald

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Johnson, John

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.