Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

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

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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 is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Eric Hoffer

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Renard, Jules

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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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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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Kafka, Franz

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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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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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Seneca

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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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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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