Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Dryden, John

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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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 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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Johnson, Samuel

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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

Maclaren, Alexander

36.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Axiom, Grandma

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

King, Billie Jean

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Proverb, Hasidic