Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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!!

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

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Seneca

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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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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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

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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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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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 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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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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.