Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Eric Hoffer

Best Quotes about Fear

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Moorish

11.

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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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

Seneca

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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

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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bible

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

George Carlin

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

Johnson, John

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray