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

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Northcote, James

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

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Bryant, Jean

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

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

Smith, Frederick

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Taylor Swift

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

Seneca

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Axiom, Grandma

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Downes, Donald

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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.