Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Downes, Donald

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Seneca

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Wrigley Jr., 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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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Downes, Donald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata