Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Fear

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.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Eric Hoffer

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Ferdinand Foch

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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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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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 have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

George Carlin

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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 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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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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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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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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

Taylor Swift

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

Paul, Jean

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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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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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert