Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

- Dixon, Bill

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Anderson, Marian

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

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 proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Downes, Donald

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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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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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

Renard, Jules

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

Shakespeare, William

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Eric Hoffer

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Seneca

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb