Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Craig, Roger

Best Quotes about Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Paul, Jean

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

10.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

11.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Eric Schmidt

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Dyson, Freeman

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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

29.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

George Carlin

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

Dale, Stan

35.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Epictetus

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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!!

46.

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

Bible

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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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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry