Motivational Quotes

Fear

A fighter has to know fear.

- D'Amato, Cus

Best Quotes about Fear

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Frances Moore Lappe

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Proverb, Hasidic

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bible

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Seneca

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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