Motivational Quotes

Fear

A fighter has to know fear.

- D'Amato, Cus

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Brown, Les

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Bible

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

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

Theodosia Garrison

10.

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

Smith, Frederick

11.

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

Dyson, Freeman

12.

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

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

Seneca

14.

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

Ann Radcliffe

15.

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

Epictetus

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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

17.

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

18.

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

Nightingale, Earl

19.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

21.

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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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

23.

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

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

Foreman, Ed

25.

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

26.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

27.

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

Akhenaton

28.

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

29.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

30.

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

Davis, Elmer

31.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Dale, Stan

34.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

36.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

37.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

43.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

48.

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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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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha