Motivational Quotes

Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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.

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

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

Emily Dickinson

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

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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 is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Craig, Roger

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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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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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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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.