Motivational Quotes

Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Fear

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Taylor Swift

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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 not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Shakespeare, William

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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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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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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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

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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 met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

George Carlin

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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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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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank