Motivational Quotes

Fear

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

- Susan Jeffers

Best Quotes about Fear

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Davis, Elmer

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

Edmund Burke

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Downes, Donald

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Bible

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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 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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Axiom, Grandma

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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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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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

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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 is what kills us.

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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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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