Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

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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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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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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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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Eric Schmidt

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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

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles