Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Fear

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Akhenaton

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

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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 oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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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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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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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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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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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.

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Downes, Donald

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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.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Seneca

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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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