Motivational Quotes

Fear

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Fear

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Seneca

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Kafka, Franz

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Anderson, Marian

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Eric Hoffer

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Johnson, John

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence