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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

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

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 of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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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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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

George Carlin

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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!!

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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 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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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