Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

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

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!!

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

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bible

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Paul, Jean

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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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

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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

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William