Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

- Dixon, Bill

Best Quotes about Fear

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

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

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.

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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

George Carlin

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Brown, Les

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Taylor Swift

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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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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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Edmund Burke

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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