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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Downes, Donald

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

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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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

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

Northcote, James

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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.

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Epictetus

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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Smith, Frederick

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Seneca

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon