Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Akhenaton

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Taylor Swift

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Seneca

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Craig, Roger

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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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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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 proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

King, Billie Jean

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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

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

Epictetus

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Fear is the mind killer