Motivational Quotes

Fear

The thing I fear most is fear.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Davis, Elmer

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Nightingale, Florence

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

10.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Johnson, John

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Seneca

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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