Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

- Proverb, Moorish

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Dyson, Freeman

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Taylor Swift

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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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.

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

33.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert