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

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Theodosia Garrison

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Eric Schmidt

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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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 sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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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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 sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Eric Hoffer

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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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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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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 thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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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 nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert