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

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

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

King, Billie Jean

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Fear is what kills us.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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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

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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!!

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

Taylor Swift

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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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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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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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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius