Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

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

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

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

Seneca

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Claudianus, Claudius

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

King, Billie Jean

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Frances Moore Lappe