Motivational Quotes

Fear

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

- Nixon, Patricia

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Johnson, John

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Eric Schmidt

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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!!

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Seneca

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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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

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Kafka, Franz

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe