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

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Proverb, Moorish

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Theodosia Garrison

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

10.

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Ann Radcliffe

12.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

13.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

17.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

18.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

19.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Keynes, John Maynard

25.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

28.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

29.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

30.

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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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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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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

George Carlin

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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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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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic