Motivational Quotes

Fear

He without fear is king of the world.

- Eddison, E. E.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is what kills us.

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Downes, Donald

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

Johnson, John

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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 is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Renard, Jules

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

King, Billie Jean

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.