Motivational Quotes

Fear

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

10.

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

Proverb, Moorish

11.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

15.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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.

20.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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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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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 is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Patton, George S.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Seneca

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.