Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Eric Schmidt

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear is what kills us.

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

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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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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

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Downes, Donald

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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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 not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Patton, George S.

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Northcote, James

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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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.