Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is excitement without breath.

- Heller, Robert

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Craig, Roger

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

Kafka, Franz

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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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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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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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

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom