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

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Downes, Donald

10.

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

Emily Dickinson

11.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

12.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

13.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

14.

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

15.

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

Foreman, Ed

16.

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

Kempis, Thomas

18.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

19.

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

20.

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

Dryden, John

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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.

22.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

23.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

25.

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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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

27.

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

Eric Schmidt

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

George Carlin

30.

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

Smith, Frederick

31.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

32.

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

Kafka, Franz

33.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

37.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

40.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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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

43.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

44.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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I have a fear of failure.