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

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

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

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.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Johnson, John

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

Taylor Swift

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Baudrillard, Jean

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Foreman, Ed

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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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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