Motivational Quotes

Fear

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

- Emily Dickinson

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Seneca

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

Fear is what kills us.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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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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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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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, 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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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Patton, George S.

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

22.

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

Axiom, Grandma

23.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Eric Schmidt

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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Renard, Jules

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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 becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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