Motivational Quotes

Fear

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Shakespeare, William

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

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Taylor Swift

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Paul, Jean

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Renard, Jules

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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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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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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Anderson, Marian

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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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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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe