Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

4.

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

Brown, Les

5.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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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

9.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

10.

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

King, Billie Jean

11.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

20.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

22.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

23.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

27.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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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

29.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

30.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

35.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

38.

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

40.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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

42.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

44.

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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

46.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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