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

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

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

George Carlin

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bible

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Brown, Les

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill