Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Nightingale, Florence

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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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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Frost, Robert

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

George Carlin

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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 excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert