Motivational Quotes

Fear

A fighter has to know fear.

- D'Amato, Cus

Best Quotes about Fear

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fear is what kills us.

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

George Carlin

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Proverb, Moorish

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Akhenaton

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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 know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Eric Hoffer

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

Taylor Swift

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Johnson, John

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

Foreman, Ed

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean