Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Fear

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Paul, Jean

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

Parsons, Wendell

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Anderson, Marian

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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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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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Downes, Donald

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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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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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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 excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.