Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Frances Moore Lappe

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Johnson, John

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

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

Nightingale, Florence

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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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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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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Fear is what kills us.

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

Northcote, James

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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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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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 of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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

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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