Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

George Carlin

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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 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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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