Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Godard, Jean-Luc

Best Quotes about Fear

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Paul, Jean

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Dale, Stan

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Nixon, Richard M.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Seneca

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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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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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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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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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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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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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

38.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Renard, Jules

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

Theodosia Garrison

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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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