Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Northcote, James

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

Nightingale, Florence

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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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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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

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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 fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank