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

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

Hoffer, Eric

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Patton, George S.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Ann Radcliffe

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Bryant, Jean

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard