Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

- Dixon, Bill

Best Quotes about Fear

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kafka, Franz

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Patton, George S.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear is what kills us.

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eric Hoffer

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Eric Schmidt

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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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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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Downes, Donald

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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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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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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 the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.