Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Theodosia Garrison

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

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

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Downes, Donald

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

10.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

11.

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 can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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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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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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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Bradbury, Ray

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Carnegie, Dale

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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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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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

39.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Shakespeare, William

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.