Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

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

Seneca

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

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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 fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Shakespeare, William

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Taylor Swift

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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

Bradbury, Ray

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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!!

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

Eric Hoffer

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb