Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Nightingale, Earl

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Streisand, Barbara

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

George Carlin

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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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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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.