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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

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

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Foreman, Ed

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

King, Billie Jean

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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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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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

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bible

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.