Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Proverb, Moorish

Best Quotes about Fear

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

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Seneca

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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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

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Paul, Jean

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dryden, John

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Renard, Jules

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

Kafka, Franz

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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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