Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Godard, Jean-Luc

Best Quotes about Fear

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Thompson, Dorothy

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Edmund Burke

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

Seneca

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Taylor Swift

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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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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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

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

Dale, Stan

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Akhenaton

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

Brown, Les

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

Seneca

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Lincoln, Abraham