Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

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!!

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

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Dale, Stan

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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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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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is what kills us.

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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.

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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