Motivational Quotes

Fear

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

- Akhenaton

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bradley, Francis H.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Parsons, Wendell

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

Epictetus

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bible

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

Johnson, John

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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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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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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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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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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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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.