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

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

Scheele, Paul R.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Epictetus

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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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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Bible

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

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

Taylor Swift

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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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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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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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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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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

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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