Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

- Dixon, Bill

Best Quotes about Fear

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

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

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

Ferdinand Foch

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

17.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Epictetus

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Dryden, John

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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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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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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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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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