Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action conquers fear.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Ferdinand Foch

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

King, Billie Jean

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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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 only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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 what kills us.

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Johnson, John

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

George Carlin

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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

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

Smith, Frederick

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer