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

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

George Carlin

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

21.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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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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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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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.