Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about 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

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Moorish

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Taylor Swift

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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 the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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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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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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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

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack