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

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

Ann Radcliffe

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

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

Nightingale, Florence

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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 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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear is what kills us.

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Dale, Stan

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

Hoffer, Eric

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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.

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Bible

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Paul, Jean

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

Kafka, Franz

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius