Motivational Quotes

Fear

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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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 is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Davis, Elmer

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

George Carlin

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Seneca

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

40.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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