Motivational Quotes

Fear

A fighter has to know fear.

- D'Amato, Cus

Best Quotes about Fear

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Taylor Swift

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Renard, Jules

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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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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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Seneca

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Anderson, Marian

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