Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

- Dixon, Bill

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is what kills us.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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

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

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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 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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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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

Downes, Donald

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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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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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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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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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb