Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about 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

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Craig, Roger

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Downes, Donald

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Akhenaton

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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 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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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 thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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