Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

George Carlin

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Kafka, Franz

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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 has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Anderson, Marian

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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

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

Renard, Jules

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.