Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Northcote, James

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Seneca

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

Anderson, Marian

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

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

Taylor Swift

10.

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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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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

14.

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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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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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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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 first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

31.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Eric Schmidt

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Bryant, Jean

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison