Motivational Quotes

Fear

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Fear

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

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

Taylor Swift

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

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nixon, Richard M.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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 without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Proverb, Moorish

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Anderson, Marian

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Shakespeare, William

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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