Motivational Quotes

Fear

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

- Young, Edward

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

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

George Carlin

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Theodosia Garrison

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Johnson, John

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo