Motivational Quotes

Fear

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

- Ferdinand Foch

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Johnson, Samuel

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Dale, Stan

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Fear is what kills us.

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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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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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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 the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Akhenaton

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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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

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

Seneca

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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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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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor