Motivational Quotes

Fear

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

- Frances Moore Lappe

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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.

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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

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

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

Akhenaton

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

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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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

14.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

15.

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

16.

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

Downes, Donald

17.

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

Eric Schmidt

18.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

19.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

24.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

25.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Seneca

27.

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

Bible

28.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

29.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Fear is what kills us.

34.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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

37.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

38.

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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Maclaren, Alexander

41.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

44.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

47.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell