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

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Epictetus

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Thompson, Dorothy

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Johnson, John

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

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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.