Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Theodosia Garrison

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Bryant, Jean

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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