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

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

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

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

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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 failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Seneca

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Craig, Roger

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Akhenaton