Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Davis, Elmer

Best Quotes about Fear

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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 met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Downes, Donald

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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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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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 is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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 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

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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

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

Seneca

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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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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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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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.

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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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 have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert