Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

- Hoffer, Eric

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

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 is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

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

Shakespeare, William

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Foreman, Ed

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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 sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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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.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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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 is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.