Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Fear

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Bryant, Jean

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Eric Schmidt

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Craig, Roger

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

Bible

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.