Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Claudianus, Claudius

Best Quotes about Fear

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

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Epictetus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Downes, Donald

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Only your mind can produce fear.