Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Fear

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Craig, Roger

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

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

10.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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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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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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 is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The best safety lies in fear.