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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Brown, Les

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

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Nightingale, Florence

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Bible

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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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

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Foreman, Ed

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Eric Schmidt

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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

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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

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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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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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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

Ferdinand Foch

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.