Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Northcote, James

Best Quotes about Fear

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

King, Billie Jean

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Bryant, Jean

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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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 is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Brown, Les

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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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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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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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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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman