Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Eric Schmidt

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

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

Brown, Les

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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Bible

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Renard, Jules

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, 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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Ferdinand Foch

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hitchcock, Alfred