Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Hitchcock, Alfred

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Nightingale, Florence

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

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.

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Kafka, Franz

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Eric Schmidt

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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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 without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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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

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

George Carlin

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

Seneca

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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 great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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.