Motivational Quotes

Fear

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Proverb, Moorish

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is no passion so contagious as that of 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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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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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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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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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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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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

Axiom, Grandma

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Bible

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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

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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