Motivational Quotes

Fear

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Fear

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

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

Fear is what kills us.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

10.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Dale, Stan

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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.

25.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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 is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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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 darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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.

35.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

42.

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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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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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 met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric