Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

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Best Quotes about Fear

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Northcote, James

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

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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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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

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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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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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Renard, Jules

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

Theodosia Garrison

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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