Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Seneca

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

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

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

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

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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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 is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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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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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song