Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Anderson, Marian

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

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

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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Emily Dickinson

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Eric Hoffer

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Davis, Elmer

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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