Motivational Quotes

Fear

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Fear

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

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

Ferdinand Foch

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bible

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil