Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Claudianus, Claudius

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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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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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 a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

George Carlin

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Downes, Donald

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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.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.