Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Northcote, James

Best Quotes about Fear

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Brown, Les

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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

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

Bryant, Jean

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

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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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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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Johnson, Samuel

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.