Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Eric Schmidt

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Maclaren, Alexander

11.

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

12.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

15.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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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 is what kills us.

19.

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 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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Bible

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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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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

34.

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Axiom, Grandma

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

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

Anderson, Marian

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Scheele, Paul R.