Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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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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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Eric Hoffer

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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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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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 the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Northcote, James

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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

Bible

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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

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

Akhenaton

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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