Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Scheele, Paul R.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Eric Hoffer

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.