Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Fear

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Taylor Swift

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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.

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

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Nightingale, Florence

11.

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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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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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Northcote, James

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

33.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Johnson, John

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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

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher