Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Proverb, Hasidic

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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!!

Williamson, Marianne

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Epictetus

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

George Carlin

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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 the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Anderson, Marian

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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 excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Nightingale, Florence

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bible

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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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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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Northcote, James

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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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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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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

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

Proverb, Moorish