Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Johnson, John

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

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

Kafka, Franz

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epictetus

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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

George Carlin

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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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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil