Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

10.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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 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!!

27.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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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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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Thompson, Dorothy

42.

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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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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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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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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger