Motivational Quotes

Fear

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Fear

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

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

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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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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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

Davis, Elmer

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

George Carlin

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

Bible

38.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Johnson, John

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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

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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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Northcote, James

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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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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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