Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fear

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Nightingale, Florence

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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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 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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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Taylor Swift

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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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