Motivational Quotes

Fear

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

Fear is what kills us.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Brown, Les

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

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

Axiom, Grandma

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

15.

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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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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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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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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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

20.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

27.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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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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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