Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Dale, Stan

12.

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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

18.

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

Bible

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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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

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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