Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

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

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Seneca

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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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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

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Taylor Swift

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

Bible

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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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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Theodosia Garrison

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Fear is what kills us.

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.