Motivational Quotes

Fear

A fighter has to know fear.

- D'Amato, Cus

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bradbury, Ray

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

Fear is what kills us.

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Bryant, Jean

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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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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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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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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 is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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

Downes, Donald

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

Renard, Jules

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

King, Billie Jean

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.