Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

King, Billie Jean

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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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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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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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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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Kafka, Franz

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

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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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 is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Ferdinand Foch

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Hill, Napoleon

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, 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