Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about 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.

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!!

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

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Epictetus

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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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 is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Eric Schmidt

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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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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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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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