Motivational Quotes

Fear

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

- Streisand, Barbara

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Akhenaton

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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 not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Downes, Donald

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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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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

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Streisand, Barbara

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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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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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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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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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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