Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Akhenaton

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Seneca

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

Maltz, Maxwell

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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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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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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Dryden, John

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.