Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Fear

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

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Epictetus

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Downes, Donald

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Anderson, Marian

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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

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

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

Johnson, John

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.