Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Downes, Donald

Best Quotes about Fear

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Downes, Donald

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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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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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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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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 can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 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 biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Renard, Jules

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Dyson, Freeman