Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Anderson, Marian

Best Quotes about Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Northcote, James

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Johnson, John

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

Eric Hoffer

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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 fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Brown, Les

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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