Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb, Moorish

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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 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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Bible

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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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

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

Dryden, John

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear is what kills us.

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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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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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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

Seneca

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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