Motivational Quotes

Fear

A fighter has to know fear.

- D'Amato, Cus

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Dale, Stan

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Maclaine, Shirley

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Epictetus

11.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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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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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Shakespeare, William

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Renard, Jules

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

38.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

39.

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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