Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Frances Moore Lappe

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Johnson, Samuel

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

10.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Anderson, Marian

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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

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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

King, Billie Jean

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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 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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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

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

Paul, Jean

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

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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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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

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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