Motivational Quotes

Fear

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

- Benson, Arthur Christopher

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

Fear is what kills us.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Wrigley Jr., William

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bible

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Kafka, Franz

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Downes, Donald

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Davis, Elmer

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Northcote, James

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.