Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Frances Moore Lappe

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Anderson, Marian

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Francis Quarles

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Davis, Elmer

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Hoffer, Eric

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

George Carlin

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

37.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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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