Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bryant, Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Brown, Les

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

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Nightingale, Florence

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Smith, Frederick

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

George Carlin

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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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.

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Renard, Jules

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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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!!

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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 timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Foreman, Ed