Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

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

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Renard, Jules

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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

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

Downes, Donald

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French