Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Godard, Jean-Luc

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Foreman, Ed

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Downes, Donald

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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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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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

12.

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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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Carnegie, Dale

28.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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

Ferdinand Foch

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bryant, Jean

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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.