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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Nixon, Richard M.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Seneca

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

George Carlin

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Bradbury, Ray

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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

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Patton, George S.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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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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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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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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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

King, Billie Jean

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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