Motivational Quotes

Fear

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Edmund Burke

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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 the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Taylor Swift

29.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Bible

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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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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 can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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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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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane