Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Epictetus

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

Bible

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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

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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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 is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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

Edmund Burke

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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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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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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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.