Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Craig, Roger

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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.

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

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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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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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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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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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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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 timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Johnson, John

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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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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 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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Kafka, Franz

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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.

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges