Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Nightingale, Florence

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Anderson, Marian

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Paul, Jean

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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 is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Renard, Jules

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Eric Hoffer

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Eric Schmidt

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, 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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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.