Motivational Quotes

Fear

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

- Parsons, Wendell

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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.

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

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

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is what kills us.

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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

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Johnson, John

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

Proverb, Moorish

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Eric Hoffer

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.