Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Thompson, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Fear

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Parsons, Wendell

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Taylor Swift

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Davis, Elmer

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Epictetus