Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

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

Davis, Elmer

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Hill, Napoleon

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Seneca

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Johnson, John

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

Anderson, Marian

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Brown, Les

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Seneca

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.