Motivational Quotes

Fear

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

- Berryman, John

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Seneca

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Seneca

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Northcote, James

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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

George Carlin

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

Patton, George S.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Foreman, Ed

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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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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Downes, Donald

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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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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bryant, Jean