Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Fear

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

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

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

Anderson, Marian

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Edmund Burke

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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

Downes, Donald

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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 proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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 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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic