Motivational Quotes

Fear

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

- Hopkins, Tom

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emily Dickinson

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

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Axiom, Grandma

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

10.

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

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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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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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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Patton, George S.

19.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Johnson, John

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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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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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 anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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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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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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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

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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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

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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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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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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