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

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

Seneca

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

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Eric Schmidt

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

George Carlin

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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 innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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D'Amato, Cus

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Downes, Donald

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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 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.