Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Taylor Swift

Best Quotes about Fear

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

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.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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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 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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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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

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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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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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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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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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Downes, Donald

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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