Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Craig, Roger

Best Quotes about Fear

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.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Downes, Donald

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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

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

Eric Schmidt

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Emily Dickinson

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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 the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Seneca

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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