Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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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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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Renard, Jules

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is the mind killer