Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Smith, Frederick

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Akhenaton

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Brown, Les

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

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

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Eric Schmidt

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Shakespeare, William

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Downes, Donald

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Kafka, Franz

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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