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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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

Akhenaton

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Bible

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Ferdinand Foch

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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

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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