Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Fear

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

George Carlin

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Proverb, Moorish

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johnson, John

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Taylor Swift

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

Renard, Jules

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Downes, Donald

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

38.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Bradbury, Ray

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!