Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Fear

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

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

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Nightingale, Florence

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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

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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

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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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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Taylor Swift

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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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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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bryant, Jean

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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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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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 is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Downes, Donald

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

Hoffer, Eric

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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 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

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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

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

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

Parsons, Wendell

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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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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