Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Bible

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Eric Hoffer

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

Fear is what kills us.

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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 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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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 is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Craig, Roger

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

44.

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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb