Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Downes, Donald

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Edmund Burke

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Kafka, Franz

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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 the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Taylor Swift

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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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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry