Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Nixon, Richard M.

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Nightingale, Florence

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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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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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

Craig, Roger

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.