Motivational Quotes

Fear

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

- Canfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Anderson, Marian

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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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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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 is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Ann Radcliffe

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Patton, George S.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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

Renard, Jules

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Paul, Jean

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.