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

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Maclaine, Shirley

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Dale, Stan

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Seneca

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Taylor Swift

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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 has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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 the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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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

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

King, Billie Jean

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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

Renard, Jules

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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