Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear the man who fears you.

- Proverb, Hasidic

Best Quotes about Fear

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Eric Hoffer

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Seneca

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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 proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Dryden, John

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

Renard, Jules

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

28.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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.

34.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

41.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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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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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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