Motivational Quotes

Fear

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

- Canfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Fear

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

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Davis, Elmer

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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 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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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dale, Stan