Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

- Jones, Eli Stanley

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Ferdinand Foch

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Bible

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

11.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

12.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

15.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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

24.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

27.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

41.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

45.

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

Edmund Burke

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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