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

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

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

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

12.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Downes, Donald

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

Seneca

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