Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Seneca

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Dale, Stan

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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 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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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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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

28.

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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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.

32.

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

Bible

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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.

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

Downes, Donald

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.