Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Epictetus

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

Taylor Swift

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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

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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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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Bryant, Jean

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham