Motivational Quotes

Fear

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Fear

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.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Johnson, John

10.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bradley, Francis H.

17.

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

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

19.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

21.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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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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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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 a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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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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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Wrigley Jr., William

40.

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

Bible

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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