Motivational Quotes

Fear

Only your mind can produce fear.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Fear

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dryden, John

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hoffer, Eric