Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Dyson, Freeman

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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 is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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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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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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Francis Quarles

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.