Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Scheele, Paul R.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Edmund Burke

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

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Parsons, Wendell

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

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Akhenaton

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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

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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