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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Taylor Swift

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

Downes, Donald

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

George Carlin

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha