Motivational Quotes

Fear

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

- Edmund Burke

Best Quotes about Fear

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Craig, Roger

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

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

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

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

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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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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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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

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Bible

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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.