Motivational Quotes

Fear

The thing I fear most is fear.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

George Carlin

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

Eric Schmidt

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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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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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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

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

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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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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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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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

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

Nightingale, Florence

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Downes, Donald

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Patton, George S.

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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.

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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

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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