Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Best Quotes about Fear

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

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

Kafka, Franz

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dyson, Freeman

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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 is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Downes, Donald

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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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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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius