Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Davis, Elmer

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Downes, Donald

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Seneca

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Epictetus

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

Anderson, Marian

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Paul, Jean

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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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