Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Claudianus, Claudius

Best Quotes about Fear

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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!!

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Seneca

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Anderson, Marian

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Johnson, John

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

Downes, Donald

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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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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Kafka, Franz

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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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 is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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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