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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Hoffer, Eric

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Taylor Swift

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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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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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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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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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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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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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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Johnson, John

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

George Carlin

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William