Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Renard, Jules

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

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

Brown, Les

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.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

George Carlin

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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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