Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Fear

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Moorish

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bible

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

George Carlin

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Seneca

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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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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Johnson, John

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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