Motivational Quotes

Fear

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Epictetus

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.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Downes, Donald

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Parsons, Wendell

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

11.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Taylor Swift

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

Anderson, Marian

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.