Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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 man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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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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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

35.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Eric Hoffer

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Edmund Burke

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.