Motivational Quotes

Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Claudianus, Claudius

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Axiom, Grandma

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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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 what kills us.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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