Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Foreman, Ed

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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

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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Renard, Jules

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Kafka, Franz

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.