Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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

Frances Moore Lappe

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

12.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Claudianus, Claudius

23.

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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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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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 fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Nixon, Richard M.

41.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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 worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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A fighter has to know fear.