Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Davis, Elmer

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Dyson, Freeman

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.

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

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Epictetus

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Patton, George S.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

George Carlin

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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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 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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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