Motivational Quotes

Fear

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Fear

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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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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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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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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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 is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Smith, Frederick

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.