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 is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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 truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Downes, Donald

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

Bible

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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 proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.