Motivational Quotes

Fear

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Proverb, Hasidic

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eric Schmidt

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

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!!

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dale, Stan

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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

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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

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Eric Hoffer

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Edmund Burke

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Johnson, John

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.