Motivational Quotes

Fear

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

- Overstreet, Harry A.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Northcote, James

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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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 of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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