Motivational Quotes

Fear

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

- Maclaine, Shirley

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bryant, Jean

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

Edmund Burke

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

George Carlin

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Renard, Jules

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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 truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Johnson, John

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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 listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.