Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Nightingale, Earl

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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.

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

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Taylor Swift

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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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

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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

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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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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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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Brown, Les