Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Nightingale, Florence

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Johnson, John

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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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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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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Seneca

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Taylor Swift

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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Kafka, Franz

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

George Carlin

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Renard, Jules

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

Dale, Stan

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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!!

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert