Motivational Quotes

Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Fear

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Ferdinand Foch

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Keynes, John Maynard

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Bryant, Jean

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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 the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Craig, Roger

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dale, Stan

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Smith, Frederick

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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

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William