Motivational Quotes

Fear

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Fear

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

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

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

King, Billie Jean

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

10.

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

Axiom, Grandma

11.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

12.

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

Dale, Stan

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Kafka, Franz

15.

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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

17.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

18.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

19.

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

Kempis, Thomas

20.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

23.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

24.

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

Nightingale, Florence

25.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

26.

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

27.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

30.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

31.

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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

Nightingale, Earl

34.

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

Smith, Frederick

35.

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

Dryden, John

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is what kills us.

46.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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