Motivational Quotes

Fear

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Ann Radcliffe

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Downes, Donald

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Anderson, Marian

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Paul, Jean

33.

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.

34.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal