Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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.

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

Dryden, John

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

Claudianus, Claudius

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Taylor Swift

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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 biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

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

Seneca

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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 is what kills us.

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

George Carlin

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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!!

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren