Motivational Quotes

Fear

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

- Berryman, John

Best Quotes about Fear

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

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Maclaren, Alexander

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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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 the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Proverb, Moorish

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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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 best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Anderson, Marian

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Bible

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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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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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 that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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 of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.