Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Fear

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

11.

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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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.

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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

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Renard, Jules

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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Epictetus

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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 is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Brown, Les

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

46.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton