Motivational Quotes

Fear

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

- Berryman, John

Best Quotes about Fear

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

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Downes, Donald

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

18.

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

Bible

19.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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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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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 the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

King, Billie Jean

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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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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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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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.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Epictetus

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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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