Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

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

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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.

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

Renard, Jules

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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

Dale, Stan

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

Ferdinand Foch

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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

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

King, Billie Jean

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