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

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Bible

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

Hoffer, Eric

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

George Carlin

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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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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Smith, Frederick

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Anderson, Marian

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bradbury, Ray

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