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

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Nightingale, Florence

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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 is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Brown, Les

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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