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

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

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

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

Kafka, Franz

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

George Carlin

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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

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Craig, Roger

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Downes, Donald

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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

Maclaren, Alexander