Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Maclaine, Shirley

Best Quotes about Fear

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Hoffer, Eric

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.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

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

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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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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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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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Downes, Donald

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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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

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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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 sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.