Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Smith, Frederick

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

Fear is what kills us.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Downes, Donald

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Dryden, John

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Foreman, Ed

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.