Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Brown, Les

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Epictetus

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Axiom, Grandma

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear is what kills us.

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Smith, Frederick

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Anderson, Marian

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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 the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

George Carlin

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

Taylor Swift

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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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 is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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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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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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

Eric Hoffer

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Kafka, Franz

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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