Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Nightingale, Florence

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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 is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bryant, Jean

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic