Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fear

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Fear is what kills us.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Bible

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Ferdinand Foch

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Bryant, Jean

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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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 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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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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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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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song