Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

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.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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!!

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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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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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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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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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

George Carlin

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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