Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Smith, Frederick

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Downes, Donald

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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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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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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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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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 is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

King, Billie Jean

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Davis, Elmer