Motivational Quotes

Fear

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

- Hopkins, Tom

Best Quotes about 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

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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 with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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