Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bryant, Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

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.

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

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Davis, Elmer

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Paul, Jean

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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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 can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

Seneca

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dyson, Freeman

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bryant, Jean

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Bible

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De