Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Taylor Swift

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Nightingale, Florence

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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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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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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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 is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Downes, Donald

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

King, Billie Jean

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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.

Hoffman, Bob