Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Johnson, John

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Dale, Stan

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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 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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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry