Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Smith, Frederick

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Akhenaton

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Brown, Les

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

Downes, Donald

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Epictetus

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

Smith, Frederick

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Johnson, John

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, 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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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