Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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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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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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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Johnson, John

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

Smith, Frederick

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Edmund Burke

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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

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Renard, Jules

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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 am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Steve Jobs

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.