Motivational Quotes

Fear

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

- Scheele, Paul R.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Nightingale, Florence

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Foreman, Ed

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Downes, Donald

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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 proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Epictetus

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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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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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Maclaine, Shirley