Motivational Quotes

Fear

Only your mind can produce fear.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Akhenaton

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Renard, Jules

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Kafka, Franz

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Edmund Burke

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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 is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor Swift

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Anderson, Marian

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.