Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Thompson, Dorothy

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Downes, Donald

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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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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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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 is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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 you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata