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

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Dale, Stan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Bryant, Jean

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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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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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Shakespeare, William

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Kafka, Franz

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

George Carlin

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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