Motivational Quotes

Fear

He without fear is king of the world.

- Eddison, E. E.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Renard, Jules

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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.

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

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

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

10.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

11.

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

14.

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

Akhenaton

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Seneca

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

Johnson, John

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Axiom, Grandma

33.

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

Dyson, Freeman

34.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bible

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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