Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Hitchcock, Alfred

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Axiom, Grandma

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

Ferdinand Foch

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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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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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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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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