Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

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

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bryant, Jean

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Dryden, John

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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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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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

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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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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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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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Bradbury, Ray