Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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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

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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

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill