Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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 the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is what kills us.

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Johnson, John

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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 is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Seneca

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Axiom, Grandma