Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wrigley Jr., William

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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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

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

George Carlin

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bryant, Jean

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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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

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Anderson, Marian

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift