Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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.

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Anderson, Marian

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

37.

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 the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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