Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Craig, Roger

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

George Carlin

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!!

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Johnson, John

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Akhenaton

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

28.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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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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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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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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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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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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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.