Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear makes men believe the worst.

- Rufus, Quintus Curtius

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Nightingale, Earl

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Eric Hoffer

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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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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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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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 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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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Northcote, James

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Smith, Frederick

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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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

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