Motivational Quotes

Fear

A fighter has to know fear.

- D'Amato, Cus

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Patton, George S.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Davis, Elmer

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Johnson, John

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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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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Dale, Stan

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

George Carlin

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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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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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 what kills us.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Seneca

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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