Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Scheele, Paul R.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Parsons, Wendell

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Claudianus, Claudius

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

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

Paul, Jean

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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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

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Johnson, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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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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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Northcote, James

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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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