Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Claudianus, Claudius

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Seneca

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

Claudianus, Claudius

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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.

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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear is what kills us.

11.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

12.

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

Foreman, Ed

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Shakespeare, William

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

22.

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

George Carlin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

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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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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

32.

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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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