Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

- Jones, Eli Stanley

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Claudianus, Claudius

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

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

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

Thompson, Dorothy

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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

King, Billie Jean

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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

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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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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John