Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Smith, Frederick

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Kempis, Thomas

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

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

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Taylor Swift

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Kafka, Franz

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Dyson, Freeman

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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 the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Eric Schmidt

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.