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

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Schuller, Robert H.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

11.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

12.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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 is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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