Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, John

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Parsons, Wendell

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Eric Hoffer

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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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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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