Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bryant, Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bryant, Jean

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

10.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

George Carlin

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo