Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

- Dixon, Bill

Best Quotes about Fear

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Epictetus

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Shakespeare, William

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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 can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hoffer, Eric

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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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