Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Wrigley Jr., William

Best Quotes about Fear

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Bible

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Epictetus

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Edmund Burke

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Anderson, Marian

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Patton, George S.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Dale, Stan

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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Downes, Donald

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is what kills us.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo