Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- King, Billie Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Smith, Frederick

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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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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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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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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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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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

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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