Motivational Quotes

Fear

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Fear

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Bible

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Brown, Les

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Johnson, John

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

George Carlin

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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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

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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

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

Eric Hoffer

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell