Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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!!

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Downes, Donald

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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

Paul, Jean

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Eric Schmidt

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Theodosia Garrison

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Northcote, James

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Johnson, John

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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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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 has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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.