Motivational Quotes

Fear

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

- Thompson, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Taylor Swift

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Brown, Les

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

15.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Seneca

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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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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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 darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Emily Dickinson

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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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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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