Motivational Quotes

Fear

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Smith, Frederick

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Maclaren, Alexander

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Seneca

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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 fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

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

George Carlin

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Kafka, Franz

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Downes, Donald

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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