Motivational Quotes

Fear

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Fear

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Seneca

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley