Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Ferdinand Foch

Best Quotes about 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

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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 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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams