Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Ann Radcliffe

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

14.

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

Eric Hoffer

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Fear is what kills us.

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

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Seneca

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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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

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Epictetus

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

Thompson, Dorothy