Motivational Quotes

Fear

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

- Lorde, Audre

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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

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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

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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 is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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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

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

Epictetus

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Bradbury, Ray

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There is no passion so contagious as that of 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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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

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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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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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