Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Proverb, Hasidic

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

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

Edmund Burke

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

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

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

Bible

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

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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

11.

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

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

17.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

18.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

21.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Axiom, Grandma

24.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

25.

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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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

27.

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

Kafka, Franz

28.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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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

30.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

31.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

32.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Northcote, James

37.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

43.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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