Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Fear

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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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 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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Brown, Les

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

Renard, Jules

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Downes, Donald

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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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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Seneca

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is what kills us.

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.