Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Ferdinand Foch

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Eric Schmidt

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Theodosia Garrison

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

13.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Taylor Swift

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

George Carlin

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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

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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Action conquers fear.