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

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Anderson, Marian

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Epictetus

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

Patton, George S.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Kafka, Franz

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bible

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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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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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio