Motivational Quotes

Fear

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Fear

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

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

Downes, Donald

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

Northcote, James

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dryden, John

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Taylor Swift

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell