Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

Paul, Jean

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Eric Schmidt

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Bible

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Taylor Swift

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Foreman, Ed

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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Baudrillard, Jean

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

King, Billie Jean