Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Paul, Jean

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

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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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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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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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 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 makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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