Motivational Quotes

Fear

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

- Susan Jeffers

Best Quotes about Fear

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Eric Hoffer

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.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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.

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

Downes, Donald

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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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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Taylor Swift

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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

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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 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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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 is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo