Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- 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

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Moorish

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Paul, Jean

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Davis, Elmer

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John