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

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Paul, Jean

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Shakespeare, William

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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 what kills us.

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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 has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Dale, Stan

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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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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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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Smith, Frederick

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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 proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Bible

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Eric Schmidt

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.