Motivational Quotes

Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

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.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Seneca

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Davis, Elmer

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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.