Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- King, Billie Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Dryden, John

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Smith, Frederick

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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!!

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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

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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

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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 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 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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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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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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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert