Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Smith, Frederick

Best Quotes about Fear

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Proverb, Hasidic

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Dryden, John

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear is what kills us.

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Eric Schmidt

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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 comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Bible

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Smith, Frederick

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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

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

Edmund Burke

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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