Motivational Quotes

Fear

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

- Nightingale, Florence

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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!!

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Downes, Donald

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

George Carlin

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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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

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.