Motivational Quotes

Fear

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

- Inuit Song

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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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

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Seneca

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

George Carlin

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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.

40.

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.

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.