Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Eric Schmidt

Fear is what kills us.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ann Radcliffe

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Dyson, Freeman

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

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

10.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

11.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

12.

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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Epictetus

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

George Carlin

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

Seneca

22.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

27.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

31.

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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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.

33.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

49.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird