Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

Frances Moore Lappe

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Northcote, James

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Johnson, Samuel

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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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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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

Paul, Jean

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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 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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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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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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

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

King, Billie Jean

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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 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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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Dale, Stan

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.