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 the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Paul, Jean

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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

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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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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

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

Eric Schmidt

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

George Carlin

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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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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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 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 proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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!!

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

Brown, Les