Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about 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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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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.

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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