Motivational Quotes

Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

King, Billie Jean

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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 timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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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 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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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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