Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

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Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Downes, Donald

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Dale, Stan

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Parsons, Wendell

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Johnson, John

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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 the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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 is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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