Motivational Quotes

Fear

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

- Francis De Sales, St.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

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

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Parsons, Wendell

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Brown, Les

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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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 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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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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 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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Edmund Burke

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

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

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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 the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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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