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 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

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

George Carlin

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.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Dyson, Freeman

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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 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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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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 only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Davis, Elmer

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Brown, Les

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Edmund Burke

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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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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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