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

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

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 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

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

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

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

Paul, Jean

11.

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

Bible

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Eric Hoffer

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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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Seneca

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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 failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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

King, Billie Jean

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Dryden, John

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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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 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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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 worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Epictetus

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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

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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