Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

- Lovecraft, H. P.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Eric Hoffer

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

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

Northcote, James

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Bradbury, Ray

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Bible

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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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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 who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Dale, Stan

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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

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus