Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Fear

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Parsons, Wendell

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Bible

14.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Seneca

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb