Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Thompson, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Fear

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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 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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Parsons, Wendell

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Downes, Donald

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

Northcote, James

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 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 implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Seneca

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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