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

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Ann Radcliffe

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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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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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Kafka, Franz

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Bradbury, Ray

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Johnson, John

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Anderson, Marian

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