Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Seneca

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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 what kills us.

19.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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.

35.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

37.

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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.