Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Proverb, Moorish

Best Quotes about Fear

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

Renard, Jules

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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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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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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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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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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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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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Axiom, Grandma

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Seneca

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Edmund Burke

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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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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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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