Motivational Quotes

Fear

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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Best Quotes about Fear

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

Ferdinand Foch

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Anderson, Marian

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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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Bryant, Jean

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

18.

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

Bible

21.

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

Carnegie, Dale

22.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

25.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

26.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

27.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

29.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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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

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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

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

Francis Quarles

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

Johnson, John

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

47.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver