Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Wrigley Jr., William

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

King, Billie Jean

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

Smith, Frederick

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

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

Dryden, John

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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 only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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 defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Francis Quarles

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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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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.