Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Fear

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Downes, Donald

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

Eric Hoffer

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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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Edmund Burke

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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 innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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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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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Epictetus