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

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

Downes, Donald

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

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

Epictetus

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Renard, Jules

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Johnson, John

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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.