Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Ferdinand Foch

Best Quotes about Fear

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

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Eric Hoffer

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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 perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Nightingale, Florence

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Seneca

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

Downes, Donald

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

Davis, Elmer

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom