Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Smith, Frederick

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Johnson, John

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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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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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 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.

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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 is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear is what kills us.

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Paul, Jean

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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