Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

- Helen Mirren

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ferdinand Foch

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.

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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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 is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

George Carlin

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Proverb, Moorish

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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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 excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.