Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Johnson, Samuel

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

10.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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.

15.

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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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

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

Seneca

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Renard, Jules

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.