Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Hitchcock, Alfred

Best Quotes about Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

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

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Dyson, Freeman

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Renard, Jules

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

George Carlin

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Johnson, John

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

Axiom, Grandma

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.