Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Fear

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Proverb, Moorish

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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 is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Seneca

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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 that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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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.