Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Emily Dickinson

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

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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 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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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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

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Davis, Elmer

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane