Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Downes, Donald

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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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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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Bible

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!