Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

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

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

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Seneca

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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.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Edmund Burke

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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

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

George Carlin

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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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

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

Ann Radcliffe