Motivational Quotes

Fear

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

Dryden, John

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Bradley, Francis H.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear is what kills us.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Bible

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Downes, Donald

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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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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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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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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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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb