Motivational Quotes

Fear

A fighter has to know fear.

- D'Amato, Cus

Best Quotes about Fear

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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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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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De