Fear Quotes

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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• No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in this together, my friends, the rich, the poor, the red, white, black, brown and yellow. We share responsibility for Mother Earth and those who live and breathe upon her ..never forget that.

  Leonard Peltier

  Inspirational, Mother, Religious

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• It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning.

  Nina Dobrev

  Encouraging, Courage, Moving

  "‘The Final Girls’ Star Nina Dobrev Talks the Surprising Horror Film, ‘Vampire Diaries’, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 9, 2015.

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• When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. When you do the right things in the right way you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Way, Hiding

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 25, 2012

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• True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness.

  Christiane Northrup

  Change, Strength, Happiness

  Christiane Northrup, M.D. (2017). “A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom”, p.38, Hay House, Inc

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• We fear only what we haven’t understood.

  Byron Katie

  Worry, Anxiety, Understanding

  Twitter post from Apr 01, 2011

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• The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

  Gautama Buddha

  War, Buddhism, Secret Love

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• Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

  Elliott Smith

  Failure, Risk, Musician

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• Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Moving On, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 02, 2011

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• In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

  Statius

  Doubt, Prophet, Worst

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• The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Wisdom, Peace

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• You start to worry about what happens if you don't win. You start to fear man because you want praise from man. You start thinking about how winning will lead to more money. There are a lot of sin issues inside of that. So now when I go into competition, I have to take my thoughts captive and use God's Word to fight that battle.

  David Boudia

  God, Money, Fighting

  "A conversation with U.S. Olympic gold medalist diver David Boudia". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

  John Wayne

  Veterans Day, Courage, Military

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.34, Taylor Trade Publications

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• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Passion

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• Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Inspirational, Liars, Novelists

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

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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  Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

  Marie Curie

  Life, Encouraging, Being Strong

  "Our Precarious Habitat". Book by Melvin A. Benarde, 1970.

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• If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

  Albert Einstein

  Im Sorry, Atheist, Punishment

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• People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

  Noah Weinberg

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

  Daniel Defoe

  Danger, Thousand, Ten

  Daniel Defoe (1995). “Robinson Crusoe”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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• Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Past, Doubt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.181, Harvard University Press

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• Fear is the enemy of logic.

  Frank Sinatra

  Enemy, Logic

  "The Way You Wear Your Hat : Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'". Book by Bill Zehme, 1997.

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• And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

  Paulo Coelho

  Strength, Courage, Absence

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