Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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.

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

Northcote, James

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

Epictetus

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Dale, Stan

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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 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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Renard, Jules

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.