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 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.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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

George Carlin

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Taylor Swift

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, 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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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Bible

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Kafka, Franz

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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 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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Proverb, Moorish

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert