Motivational Quotes

Fear

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Fear

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, John

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

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Dale, Stan

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Brown, Les

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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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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Fear is what kills us.

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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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

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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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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Dryden, John

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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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!!