Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Dyson, Freeman

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Johnson, John

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

Claudianus, Claudius

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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 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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kafka, Franz

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Ferdinand Foch

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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

Downes, Donald