Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Anderson, Marian

Best Quotes about Fear

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

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

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

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

Eric Hoffer

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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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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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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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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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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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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Renard, Jules

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Shakespeare, William

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus