I leave you a nice list of phrases about fear of great authors such as Aristotle, Plato, Nelson Mandela, Paulo Coelho, Sun Tzu, Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, George RR Martin, Marco Aurelio or Salvador Dalí.
Fear is an unpleasant emotion but at the same time it is necessary in life. With it we can know when we are in danger and do something to survive, like fight or flee. It is about accepting fear, without fearing to feel it.
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Short phrases about fear
-No one reached the summit accompanied by fear.-Publilio Siro.
-It is not death that a man should fear, he should fear that he will never begin to live.-Marcus Aurelius.
4-Always do what you are afraid to do.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
25-Limits, like fear, are often an illusion.-Michael Jordan.
5-Fear defeats more people than anything else in the world.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-What I am afraid of is your fear.-William Shakespeare.
-Fear doesn’t stop you; wakes you up.-Veronica Roth.
4-Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
«Sometimes, those we fear to do the most, is what we need the most.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
11-He who has overcome his fears will be truly free.-Aristotle.
The brave man is not the one who does not feel fear, but the one who conquers fear.-Nelson Mandela.
31-If you want to control someone, make them feel afraid.-Paulo Coelho.
-Decisions based on fear and the possibility of what could happen cannot be made.-Michelle Obama.
5-Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.-Napoleon Hill.
-Ignorance is the father of fear.-Herman Melville.
«He who fears that he will suffer, already suffers what he fears.-Michel de Montaigne.
-No power so effectively robs the mind of all its powers to act and reason as fear.-Edmund Burke.
-He who possesses the most, is more afraid of losing it.-Leonardo Da Vinci.
1-He is very afraid of dying because he has not yet lived.-Franz Kafka.
-Desire overcomes fear, runs over inconveniences and smoothes difficulties.-Mateo Alemán.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.-Franklin D. Roosevelt.
11-When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.-Stephen Richards.
-Laughter is poison for fear.-George RR Martin.
12-Evil men obey out of fear, but good ones out of love.-Aristotle.
-Fear is always willing to see things worse than they are.-Tito Livio.
-Fear is like a phoenix. You can see it burn thousands of times, but it always returns.-Leigh Bardugo.
4-Do one thing that scares you every day.-Eleanor Roosevelt.
16-Courage is the resistance to fear, the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.-Mark Twain.
-There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.-John Lennon.
-Where there is charity and wisdom, there is no fear or ignorance.-Francisco of Assisi.
The cave you are afraid to enter keeps the treasure you are looking for.-Joseph Campbell.
1-I am not afraid of storms, because I am learning to navigate my boat.-Louisa May Alcott.
1-You gain strength, courage and confidence in each experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.-Eleanor Roosevelt.
-He who is not conquering a little fear every day has not learned the secret of life.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-Courage is knowing what not to fear.-Plato.
-Men are not afraid of things, but of the way they see them.-Epictetus.
-Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action generates confidence and courage.-Dale Carnegie.
-People who live deeply are not afraid of death.-Anaïs Nin.
5-Fear cuts deeper than swords.-George RR Martin.
11-If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you do not have to fear the result of a hundred battles.-Sun Tzu.
-Anxiety is the vertigo of freedom.-Søren Kierkegaard.
-Thinking will not overcome fear, but action.-W. Clement Stone.
Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you will not be able to speak to your heart.-Paulo Coelho.
The key to change is to let go of fear.-Roseanne Cash.
10-Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.-Dorothy Thompson.
-Do not be afraid of perfection, you will never reach it.-Salvador Dalí.
How we handle our fears will determine where we go in the rest of our lives.-Judy Blume.
10-Even death should not be feared by someone who has lived wisely.-Buddha.
-The man who fears losing has already lost.-George RR Martin.
12-Do what you fear and fear disappears.-David Joseph Schwartz.
3-Over time we hate what we often fear.-William Shakespeare.
15-Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.-Miguel de Cervantes.
-There are two types of fears: rational and irrational, or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and those that do not.-Lemony Snicket.
4-Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
-We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.-Emilio M. Cioran.
10-The panic at the idea of doing something is a challenge to do it.-Henry S. Haskins.
We fear what we want most.-Robert Anthony.
5-Fear is the long shadow of ignorance.-Arnold Glasow.
10-Do not be afraid to see what you see.-Ronald Reagan.
-Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than the fear of another.-Umberto Eco.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance about them.-Christian Nestell Bovee.
5-Fear makes us feel our humanity.-Benjamin Disraeli.
-The fears of a person are lighter when danger is near.-Lucio Anneo Seneca.
5-Fear is the father of courage and the mother of security.-Henry H. Tweedy.
1-Overcoming fear is the beginning of wisdom.-Bertrand Russell.
10-Humble souls are afraid of their own strength.-William Gurnall.
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.-Maria Manin Morrissey.
11-Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery.-James Stephens.
1-He who is afraid of making enemies will never have true friends.-William Hazlitt.
11-I say that I am stronger than fear.-Malala Yousafzai.
11-When you are fearful, you stumble.-Jenna Jameson.
-Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.-Marilyn Ferguson.
5-As soon as fear approaches, attack and destroy it.-Chanakya.
45-Fear has a great shadow, but it is small.-Ruth Gendler.
-There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears come true at any time.-Hunter S. Thompson.
-Fear is the mother of foresight.-Thomas Hardy.
-The timid are afraid before danger; the cowards, during it; The brave, after.-Jean Paul.
10-We would throw away many things, if we were not afraid that others would pick them up.-Oscar Wilde.
-Do not fear prison, poverty, or death. Fear fear.-Giacomo Leopardi.
-Sometimes fear prevents you from living.-Federico Moccia.
The things we fear the most have already happened to us in life.-Robin Williams.
-The most dangerous man is the one who is afraid.-Ludwig Börne.
-The executioners are always recognized. They have a scary face.-Jean Paul Sartre.
You have to take risks. You do not have to be afraid of defeat.-Paulo Coelho.
5-Fear can lead men to any extreme.-George Bernard Shaw.
10-Many do not believe in anything, but fear everything.-Friedrich Hebbel.
24-Attentive and farsighted fear is the mother of security.-Edmund Burke.
-Fear is a suffering that produces the expectation of evil.-Aristotle.
-Fear is my most faithful companion, it has never deceived me to leave with another.-Woody Allen.
5-Fear is the most ignorant, the most injurious and the cruelest of counselors.-Edmund Burke.
The fear that we do not face becomes our limit.-Robin Sharma.
45-If something scares you, maybe it’s worth doing.-Seth Godin.
10-We must build dykes of courage to contain the avalanche of fear.-Martin Luther King Jr.
1-It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.-Niccolo Machiavelli.
15-Nothing in life has to be feared, it must only be understood.-Marie Curie.
10-Do not fear for the future, do not cry for the past.-Percy Bysshe Shelley.
4-With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.-Zig Ziglar.
-I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.-Julius Caesar.
-Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of losing power.-John Steinbeck.
-I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.-Woody Allen.
What you fear most is fear. Very wise.-JK Rowling.
When we are afraid, we turn away from life.-John Lennon.
-Fear is the murderer of mind. Fear is the small death that brings destruction.-Frank Herbert.
5-The fear of the name increases the fear of the thing.-JK Rowling.
-How much I have missed because I was afraid of losing it.-Paulo Coelho.
-Without fear there can be no courage.-Christopher Paolini.
-Always do what you fear to do.-E. Lockhart.
10-Find what you fear and live there.-Chuck Palahniuk.
-This is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Do not be afraid.-Frederick Buechner.
-Fear is a feeling. Courage is an action.-Emma Donoghue.
4-It is better to die laughing than to live every minute being afraid.-Michael Crichton.
-Do not worry. They can’t take away our destiny. It is a gift.-Dante Alighieri.
long scary phrases
-The fear of death is derived from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.-Mark Twain.
-We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; The true tragedy of life is when men are afraid of light.-Plato.
-Don’t be afraid of being afraid. Being afraid is a sign of common sense. Only fools are not afraid of anything.-Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
4-There is a time to take advice from your fears, and there is a time to not listen to any fear.-George S. Patton.
We are afraid of worrying too much, for fear that the other person does not care about us at all.-Eleanor Roosevel.
-Do not fear your fears. They are not there to scare you. They are there to tell you that something is worth it.-C. Joy Bell C.
5-If your fear becomes a wordless darkness, you can be prey to panic attacks.-Yann Martel.
-I wonder if the fears really go away or is it that they lose the power they had over us.-Veronica Roth.
Men walk long distances to avoid what they fear instead of going in search of what they want.-Dan Brown.
-You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have not possessed themselves.-Hermann Hesse.
-The oldest and strongest emotion of humanity is fear, and the oldest and strongest type of fear is the fear of the unknown.-Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
-I love the man who can smile in the face of problems, who can take strength from anguish, and grow brave by reflection.-Thomas Paine.
-It is not necessary to know the danger to be afraid; In fact, unknown dangers are the ones that inspire the most fear.-Alexander Dumas.
-If you delve deeper and deeper into your own heart, you will live in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.-Sharon Salzberg.
-The eagle is not afraid of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have an intrepid spirit of conqueror!-Joyce Meyer.
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