Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Hoffer, Eric

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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.

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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 one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Johnson, John

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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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Ferdinand Foch

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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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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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.

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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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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Seneca

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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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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur