Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Northcote, James

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Bradbury, Ray

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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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 the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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