Motivational Quotes

Fear

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Paul, Jean

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

10.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

11.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

12.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

14.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

15.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

16.

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 first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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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

19.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

28.

Fear is what kills us.

29.

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

Seneca

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

Axiom, Grandma

31.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

32.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

33.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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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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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 of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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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

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

43.

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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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!!

45.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John