Motivational Quotes

Fear

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Seneca

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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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

Ferdinand Foch