Motivational Quotes

Fear

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

- Nixon, Patricia

Best Quotes about Fear

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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 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

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

Fear is what kills us.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Dryden, John

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

George Carlin

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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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Seneca

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

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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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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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.