Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Thompson, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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 is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Taylor Swift

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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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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

King, Billie Jean

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Dyson, Freeman