Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Claudianus, Claudius

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eric Hoffer

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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 biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Anderson, Marian

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack