Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Francis Quarles

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Kafka, Franz

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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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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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Seneca

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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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

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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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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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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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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Theodosia Garrison

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Taylor Swift

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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 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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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre