Motivational Quotes

Fear

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

- Nixon, Patricia

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Foreman, Ed

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

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

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Moorish

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

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

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Seneca

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Johnson, John