Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Fear

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

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

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

Johnson, John

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

Eric Schmidt

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Renard, Jules

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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 defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.