Motivational Quotes

Fear

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

- D'Amato, Cus

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Patton, George S.

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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 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 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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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Downes, Donald

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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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 proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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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.