Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Nightingale, Florence

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bradbury, Ray

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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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

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Epictetus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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 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

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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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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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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 can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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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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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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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.