Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Frances Moore Lappe

Best Quotes about Fear

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

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Smith, Frederick

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Seneca

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Shakespeare, William

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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 scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Dale, Stan

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

Taylor Swift

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon