Motivational Quotes

Fear

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

- Eric Hoffer

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Johnson, Samuel

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Fear is what kills us.

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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!!

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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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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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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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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

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

King, Billie Jean