Motivational Quotes

Fear

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

- Dale, Stan

Best Quotes about Fear

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

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

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

Johnson, John

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

Taylor Swift

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

Seneca

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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