Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Eric Schmidt

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

King, Billie Jean

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

11.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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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

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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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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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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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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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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A fighter has to know fear.