Motivational Quotes

Fear

People die of fright and live of confidence.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Taylor Swift

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Northcote, James

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Edmund Burke

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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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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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

King, Billie 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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.