Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Ferdinand Foch

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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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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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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eric Schmidt

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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

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

Nightingale, Florence

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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 can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.