Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

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

Eric Schmidt

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

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

Johnson, John

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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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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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Edmund Burke

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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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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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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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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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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Claudianus, Claudius