Motivational Quotes

Fear

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Fear

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Theodosia Garrison

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Brown, Les

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

Thompson, Dorothy

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Eric Schmidt

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Epictetus

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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 more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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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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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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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Downes, Donald

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Johnson, John

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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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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