Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Dale, Stan

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Downes, Donald

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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.

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

Dale, Stan

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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 what kills us.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Johnson, John

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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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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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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.