Motivational Quotes

Fear

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Brown, Les

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

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

George Carlin

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Johnson, John