Motivational Quotes

Fear

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Fear

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Nightingale, Florence

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

10.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Taylor Swift

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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Fear is what kills us.

27.

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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Ferdinand Foch

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Hoffer, Eric

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Francis Quarles

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

47.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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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