Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Patton, George S.

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

Akhenaton

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Bradbury, Ray

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

11.

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

12.

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 is what kills us.

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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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!!

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Smith, Frederick

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Seneca

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

39.

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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Kafka, Franz

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

47.

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 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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard