Motivational Quotes

Fear

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

- Berryman, John

Best Quotes about Fear

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

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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 less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Renard, Jules

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

George Carlin

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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

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.