Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Bradbury, Ray

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

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

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Bible

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Taylor Swift

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

18.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Seneca

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Seneca

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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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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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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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De