Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

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

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Craig, Roger

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Proverb, Moorish

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.