Motivational Quotes

Fear

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

- Ferdinand Foch

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Bradbury, Ray

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

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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

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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.

Proverb, Swedish

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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