Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Fear

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

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Renard, Jules

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dryden, John

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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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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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 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

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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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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Seneca

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Northcote, James

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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

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.