Motivational Quotes

Fear

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

- Canfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Hill, Napoleon

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Nightingale, Florence

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Kafka, Franz

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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 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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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Bradley, Francis H.

37.

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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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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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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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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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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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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.