Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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 is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dale, Stan

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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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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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

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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 degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Downes, Donald

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca