Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Davis, Elmer

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

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

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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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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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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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

18.

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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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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

Seneca

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Downes, Donald

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

32.

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.

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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 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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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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 nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.