Motivational Quotes

Fear

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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Best Quotes about Fear

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Downes, Donald

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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Brown, Les

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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 is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

George Carlin

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon