Motivational Quotes

Fear

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Fear

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Schuller, Robert H.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

12.

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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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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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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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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.

21.

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

Anderson, Marian

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

24.

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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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

27.

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

Foreman, Ed

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

30.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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

33.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

Edmund Burke

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.