Motivational Quotes

Fear

The thing I fear most is fear.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Edmund Burke

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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

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.

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

Smith, Frederick

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

10.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Johnson, John

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Downes, Donald

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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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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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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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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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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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Davis, Elmer

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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