Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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

Smith, Frederick

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Nightingale, Florence

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ann Radcliffe

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Brown, Les

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

Taylor Swift

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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.