Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Francis Quarles

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

Bryant, Jean

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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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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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dryden, John

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is what kills us.

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Seneca

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