Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

- Dixon, Bill

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Johnson, Samuel

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Seneca

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Renard, Jules

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

George Carlin

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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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

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nixon, Richard M.