Motivational Quotes

Fear

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Fear

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Brown, Les

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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 react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

Seneca

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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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.

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

Bible

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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.