Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Davis, Elmer

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Epictetus

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Dryden, John

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.

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

King, Billie Jean

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

George Carlin

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

Johnson, John

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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 has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.