Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Davis, Elmer

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

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

Eric Schmidt

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

Johnson, John

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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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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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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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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