Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Parsons, Wendell

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

12.

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

19.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Bradley, Francis H.

24.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

Nightingale, Earl

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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