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

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

10.

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

11.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

13.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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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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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Bible

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Davis, Elmer

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

39.

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

George Carlin

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

Johnson, John

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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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

Bradbury, Ray

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Johnson, Samuel