Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Nightingale, Florence

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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

Taylor Swift

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

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.

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

Ferdinand Foch

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

George Carlin

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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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

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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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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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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.