Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Epictetus

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Paul, Jean

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

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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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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Craig, Roger

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

Axiom, Grandma

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

27.

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

Bible

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

King, Billie Jean

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo