Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is excitement without breath.

- Heller, Robert

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Epictetus

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

Dyson, Freeman

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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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.

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Bible

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

Paul, Jean

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

King, Billie Jean

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Johnson, John

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

Eric Hoffer

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Renard, Jules

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.