Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Fear

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Renard, Jules

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Downes, Donald

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

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

Ferdinand Foch

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic