Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

- Bell, James F.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

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

Francis Quarles

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

Emily Dickinson

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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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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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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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

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

George Carlin

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

King, Billie Jean

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic