Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradbury, Ray

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edmund Burke

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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 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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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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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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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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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

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Foreman, Ed

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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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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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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Johnson, John

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

George Carlin

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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