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I leave you the best scary phrases 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.
You may also be interested in these phrases of courage or you are confident.
-The brave man is not the one who does not feel fear, but the one who conquers fear.-Nelson Mandela.
-If you want to control someone, make them feel afraid.-Paulo Coelho.
-You cannot make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what could happen.-Michelle Obama.
-It is not death that a man should fear, he should fear that he will never begin to live.-Marco Aurelio.
-Limits, like fear, are often an illusion.-Michael Jordan.
35-Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.-Napoleon Hill.
17-Ignorance is the father of fear.-Herman Melville.
-Fear conquers more people than anything else in the world.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-He who fears that he will suffer, already suffers what he fears.-Michel de Montaigne.
-No power robs the mind so effectively all its powers to act and reason as fear.-Edmund Burke.
-What I'm afraid of is your fear.-William Shakespeare.
-The one who possesses the most, is most afraid of losing it.-Leonardo Da Vinci.
-He is very afraid of dying because he has not yet lived.-Franz Kafka.
-Fear doesn't stop you; It wakes you up.-Veronica Roth.
-Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
-The desire conquers fear, runs over inconveniences and smoothes difficulties.-Mateo Alemán.
-Sometimes, those we are most afraid to do, is what we need the most.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-The one who has overcome his fears will be truly free.-Aristotle.
-The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.-Franklin D. Roosevelt.
When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.-Stephen Richards.
-The fear of death is derived from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any moment.-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 the light.-Plato.
-There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.-Paulo Coelho.
-You gain strength, courage and confidence in each experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror, I can control what comes next." You must do what you think you can not do.-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 builds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get to work.-Dale Carnegie.
-People who live deeply are not afraid of death.-Anaïs Nin.
-The fear cuts deeper than swords.-George RR Martin.
-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.
-Always do what you are afraid to do.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-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.
-Only when we are no longer afraid we begin to live.-Dorothy Thompson.
-Don't be afraid of perfection, you will never achieve it.-Salvador Dalí.
-Each one of us must face his own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go in the rest of our lives.-Judy Blume.
-Even death should not be feared by someone who has lived wisely.-Buddha.
-The man who fears losing has already lost.-George RR Martin.
-Do what you fear and fear disappears.-David Joseph Schwartz.
-Laughter is poison for fear.-George RR Martin.
-In time we hate what we often fear.-William Shakespeare.
-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 don't.-Lemony Snicket.
-The first duty of man is to conquer fear; You must get rid of it, you can not act until then.-Thomas Carlyle.
-Save your fears for yourself, but share your courage with others.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
-We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.-Emilio M. Cioran.
-The panic at the idea of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.-Henry S. Haskins.
35-We fear what we love the most.-Robert Anthony.
-Fear is the elongated shadow of ignorance.-Arnold Glasow.
-Don't be afraid to see what you see.-Ronald Reagan.
-There is a time to take advice from your fears, and there is a time to not listen to any fear.-George S. Patton.
-Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom implies responsibility, and most people are afraid of responsibility.-Sigmund Freud.
-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.
-I am not afraid of storms, because I am learning to navigate my boat.-Louisa May Alcott
-The cave you are afraid to enter keeps the treasure you are looking for.-Joseph Campbell.
-Fear makes us feel our humanity.-Benjamin Disraeli.
-The fears of a person are lighter when danger is near.-Lucio Anneo Seneca.
-The true nobility is exempt from fear.-Marco Tulio Cicero.
-Fear is the father of courage and the mother of security.-Henry H. Tweedy.
-Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. Overcoming fear is the beginning of wisdom.-Bertrand Russell.
-One of the greatest discoveries that a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find that he can do what he was afraid of not being able to do.-Henry Ford.
-The 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.
57-Curiosity will conquer fear even more than courage.-James Stephens.
42-He who is afraid of making enemies will never have true friends.-William Hazlitt.
-I say that I am stronger than fear.-Malala Yousafzai.
-When you are fearful, you trip.-Jenna Jameson.
24-Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.-Marilyn Ferguson.
-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 fear of the unknown.-Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
-I love the man who can smile at problems, who can take strength from anguish, and grow brave by reflection.-Thomas Paine.
-As soon as fear approaches, attack and destroy it.-Chanakya.
25-Fear has a large shadow, but it is small.-Ruth Gendler.
-Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can recognize our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working wonderfully. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.-Thich Nhat Hanh.
-There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears come true at any moment.-Hunter S. Thompson.
-Fear is the mother of foresight.-Thomas Hardy.
-The timid are afraid before danger; cowards, during it; the brave, after.-Jean Paul.
-It is not necessary to know the danger to be afraid; in fact, the unknown dangers are the ones that inspire the most fear.-Alexander Dumas.
-We would throw away many things, if we weren't afraid that others would pick them up.-Oscar Wilde.
-Do not fear prison, poverty, or death. Fear of fear.-Giacomo Leopardi.
-I am afraid of death and pain, but I live with that. Fear fascinates me.-Ayrton Senna.
-Sometimes fear prevents you from living.-Federico Moccia.
-The things we fear the most have already happened to us in life.-Robin Williams.
-Evil men obey out of fear, but good men out of love.-Aristotle.
-Fear is always willing to see things worse than they are.-Tito Livio.
-The most dangerous man is the one who is afraid.-Ludwig Börne.
-The executioners are always recognized. They have a scared face.-Jean Paul Sartre.
-Fear is that small dark room where negative objectives are revealed.-Michael Pritchard.
-No one reached the summit accompanied by fear.-Publio Siro.
-You have to take risks. You do not have to be afraid of defeat.-Paulo Coelho.
23-Fear can take men to any extreme.-George Bernard Shaw.
-Many do not believe in anything, but fear everything.-Friedrich Hebbel.
-The attentive and foresighted fear is the mother of security.-Edmund Burke.
-Fear is a suffering that produces the expectation of an evil.-Aristotle.
-Fear is my most faithful companion, it has never deceived me to go with another.-Woody Allen.
-Fear is the most ignorant, the most insulting and the most cruel of the advisers.-Edmund Burke.
-The fear that we do not face becomes our limit.-Robin Sharma.
-If something scares you, maybe it is worth doing.-Seth Godin.
-We are afraid of worrying too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.-Eleanor Roosevel.
-Courage is the resistance to fear, the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.-Mark Twain.
-We must build dams of courage to contain the avalanche of fear.-Martin Luther King Jr.
-If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.-Henri Nouwen.
-Where there is charity and wisdom, there is no fear or ignorance.-Francisco de Asís.
-The secret of existence is not to be afraid. Never fear what will become of you, do not depend on anyone. Only the moment you reject all help are you liberated.-Swami Vivekananda.
-It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.-Niccolo Machiavelli.
-Nothing in life is to be feared, it should only be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we can fear less.-Marie Curie.
-I expect nothing. I am not afraid of anything. I am free.-Nikos Kazantzakis.
-Do not fear for the future, do not cry for the past.-Percy Bysshe Shelley.
-If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you will live in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.-Sharon Salzberg.
-Do one thing that scares you every day.-Eleanor Roosevelt.
-With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so as not to have guilt.-Zig Ziglar.
-The eagle is not afraid of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless conqueror spirit! -Joyce Meyer.
-Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and we cannot descend to the destruction of mice and those little beasts.-Elizabeth I.
-I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.-Julius Caesar.
-The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we want and not on things we fear.-Brian Tracy.
-I am not afraid of the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, I fear the man who has practiced a kick 10,000 times.-Bruce Lee.
-If you run away from the things you fear, there is no resolution.-Chuck Palahniuk.
-Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps fear of losing power.-John Steinbeck.
-I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.-Woody Allen.
-There are two things that all wise men must fear: a storm at sea and the wrath of a kind man.-Patrick Rothfuss.
- What you fear most is fear. Very wise.-JK Rowling.
-Don't be afraid to be afraid. Being afraid is a sign of common sense. Only fools are not afraid of anything.-Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
-Our greatest fear is not being inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are more powerful than we think. It is our light, not our darkness, that scares us the most.-Marianna Williamson.
-There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.-John Lennon.
-I will face my fear. I will let it pass through me and through me. And when it's over, I'll see your way. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.-Frank Herbert.
-Bran thought about it. "Can a man be brave even if he is afraid?" His father replied "That is the only time a man can be brave".- George RR Martin.
-When we are afraid, we withdraw from life.-John Lennon.
-Fear is the murderer of mind. Fear is the little death that brings destruction.-Frank Herbert.
-The fear of the name increases the fear of the thing.-JK Rowling.
-Don't be afraid of your fears. They are not there to scare you. They are there to tell you that one thing is worth it.-C. JoyBell C.
-Fear begins in your mind, always. So you must strive to express it. You must illuminate it with the light of words. Because if you don't, if your fear turns into 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.
23-I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.-Taylor Swift.
-The man who runs away from his fears can realize that he has only taken a shortcut to meet them.-JRR Tolkien.
-Of course I will hurt you and you will hurt me. Of course we will get hurt. But this is existence. To become spring, you have to accept the risk of winter. To become presence, one must accept absence.-Antoine Saint-Exupéry.
-Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering and that no heart has suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of search is a second of encounter with God and with eternity.-Paulo Coelho.
-Expose yourself to your deepest sleep; after all, fear is powerless, and fear of freedom shrinks and fades. You are free.-Jim Morrison.
-The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, the divine flows of light and life no longer flow in our lives.-Elizabeth Cady Staton.
-Of how much I have lost because I was afraid of losing it.-Paulo Coelho.
-Without fear there can be no courage.-Christopher Paolini.
-My sweet summer boy, what do you know about fear? Fear is of winter, my young Lord, when the snow falls and the wind howls from the north.-George RR Martin.
-The fear is of the long night, when the sun hides its face, and children are born, live and die in the dark, while wolves lurk and white walkers walk through the forest.-George RR Martin.
25-Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of it, and acting facing fear.-Roy T. Bennett.
-Always do what you fear to do.-E. Lockhart.
-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 like a phoenix. You can see it burn thousands of times, but it always comes back.-Leigh Bardugo.
-I think the worst mistake of schools is trying to teach children using fear as motivation. Fear of failing, fear of not being at the level of the class.-Stanley Kubrick.
-Fear is a feeling. Courage is an action.-Emma Donoghue.
-It is true. I am afraid of dying. I am afraid that the world will go on without me, that my absence will go unnoticed.-Jonathan Safran Foer.
-My father told me that we should not be ashamed of being afraid, that what matters is how we face it.-George RR Martin.
-Our greatest fear should not be failure, but to succeed in things that do not really matter.-Francis Chan.
-It is better to die laughing than to live every minute being afraid.-Michael Crichton.
-Monsters come in all sizes. Some are things that people fear. Some are things that look like things they were previously afraid of.-Neil Gaiman.
-Don't be afraid of failure. The crime does not lie in failure, but in aiming low. With great attempts, there is even glory in failing.-Bruce Lee.
-Do not worry. They cannot take away our destiny. It's a gift.-Dante Alighieri.
-I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.-Nelson Mandela.
-Fear is a cunning, evil adversary, I well know. It has no decency. It does not respect the law or the conventions. He shows no mercy. It goes for your weak point and finds it easily.-Yann Martel.
42-Men walk great distances to avoid what they fear instead of going in search of what they want.-Dan Brown.
-I have accepted fear as a part of life. Especially the fear of change. I've kept going despite my heartbeat saying "turn around." - Erica Jong.
-No one ever told me that duel feels like fear.-CS Lewis.
-I'll say something about fear. He is the true opponent of life. Only fear can defeat life.-Yann Martel.