Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

- Hoffman, Bob

Best Quotes about Fear

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Paul, Jean

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

Akhenaton

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

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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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 can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Renard, Jules

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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