Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Proverb, Moorish

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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 thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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

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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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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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

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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.