Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

- Claudianus, Claudius

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Bradbury, Ray

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Epictetus

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

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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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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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 proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear is what kills us.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

George Carlin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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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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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Downes, Donald

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

Akhenaton

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

Eric Schmidt