Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Davis, Elmer

Best Quotes about Fear

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

Theodosia Garrison

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Brown, Les

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.