Motivational Quotations about Fear

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Short Quotations about Fear: Attitude

~ Decide you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby (born 1937) African-American comedian, actor, author, TV producer, educator, musician, activist

~ Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) U.S. journalist, outspoken Nazi critic

~ To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce, contemporary U.S. human consciousness & child-development expert, author

~ Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
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~ Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

~ When we plant the seeds of self-doubt, only noxious weeds sprout.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

Quotations about Fear: Attitude

~ Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Henry James (1843-1916) U.S.-born English writer

~ Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.
Krishnamurti (1895-1986) Indian philosopher and spiritual teacher, speaker, writer

~ I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French political philosopher, politician, historian

Long Quotations about Fear: Attitude

~ When you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.
Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) U.S. mythologist, writer, lecturer

~ While diving right in and confronting a fear head-on can be very effective, that may require more courage than you feel you can summon right now. You may go broke. You may experience failure and rejection repeatedly. You may endure multiple dysfunctional relationships. But these are all milestones along the path of a life lived courageously. They are your private victories, carving a deeper space within you to be filled with an abundance of joy, happiness and fulfillment. So go ahead and feel the fear—then summon the courage to follow your dreams anyway. That is strength undefeatable.
Steve Pavlina (born 1971) U.S. self-help author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur

Quotations about Fear: Benefits

~ Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English author, politician, university rector, twice British Prime Minister

Quotations about Fear: Confidence

~ Fear not tomorrow, God is already there.
Ruth Graham (1920-2007) U.S. author, wife of evangelist Billy Graham

~ You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) former American First Lady, hero of human rights

~ If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) U.S. self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills lecturer and author

~ People tend to grow fearful when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet that is precisely the time to become even bolder.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

~ Condition yourself with this fact: all confidence is acquired, developed. No one is born with confidence. Those people around you who radiate confidence, who have conquered worry, who are at ease everywhere and all the time, acquired their confidence, every bit of it.
David Joseph Schwartz (19??-19??) U.S. motivational expert, author

~ When we’re afraid of being laughed at, of embarrassment, of being looked down on by others for our mistakes, shortcomings or limitations, progress becomes very difficult. We must be brave. So what if others laugh? Whoever makes fun of those trying their best are the ones who should be ashamed.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

Quotations about Fear

~ I believe there is no devil but fear.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) U.S. writer, publisher, artist, philosopher

~ Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English author, politician, university rector, twice British Prime Minister

~ Fear is largely about being abandoned.
Eldon Taylor, contemporary U.S. former criminologist; doctor of psychology & metaphysics, nondenominational minister, author

~ Everybody's shaking in his boots, so don't be bluffed.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) U.S. novelist, essayist

~ The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, philosopher

~ The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) U.S. mythologist, writer, lecturer

~ The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) former American First Lady, hero of human rights

~ Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
Les Brown (born 1945) African-American motivational speaker, coach, author

~ The greatest mistake a person can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) U.S. writer, publisher, artist, philosopher

Longer Quotations about 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.
Jack Canfield (born 1944) U.S. motivational speaker, author, co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books

~ From the perspective of spirit all fear is a projection from the past, and as long as these projections continue, you will keep generating fearful situations to accommodate them.
Deepak Chopra M.D. (born 1947) Indian-born U.S.-based physician, metaphysican, author

Quotations about Fear: Inaction

~ In fearing the fall, we fail to fly at all.
Joseph Longshore II (born 1970) U.S. enlightened living, personal empowerment, nature awareness, wilderness survival, native philosophy & spirituality teacher

~ Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
Douglas Horton (1891-1968) U.S. Protestant clergyman, academic leader

~ Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.
Maya Angelou (born 1928) African-American autobiographer, poet

~ No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, philosopher

~ A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English writer, Anglican clergyman

Quotations about Fear: Love

~ Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
Marianne Williamson (born 1952) U.S. spiritual activist, author, lecturer

~ All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.
Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) English author, poet

~ Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) Italian Catholic deacon, founder of the Franciscans, known as the patron saint of animals & the environment

~ Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) Italian Catholic deacon, founder of the Franciscans, known as the patron saint of animals & the environment

~ Fear at any level of the psyche makes it much more difficult to trust that passion is safe.
Deepak Chopra M.D. (born 1947) Indian-born U.S.-based physician, metaphysican, author

~ As nature created us it is normal to seek pleasure; a fearful person avoids pain instead.
Deepak Chopra M.D. (born 1947) Indian-born U.S.-based physician, metaphysican, author

~ In fear’s warped value system, getting “too close” seems like a problem instead of the solution.
Deepak Chopra M.D. (born 1947) Indian-born U.S.-based physician, metaphysican, author

Quotations about Fear: Prevention

~ Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: he that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.
Francis Quarles (1592-644) English poet

~ I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, gossip or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.
Rev. Edith Armstrong, contemporary Canadian senior & co-founding pastor of Third Day Worship Centre

Quotations about Fear: Success

~ Those who want success most have the greatest fear of failure.
David K. Reynolds, Ph.D., contemporary U.S. psychologist, based in U.S. and Japan

~ Procrastination is the fear of success... Because success is heavy, it carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
Denis Waitley (born 1933) U.S. motivational speaker, writer, consultant, author

Quotations about Fear: Taking Action

~ Do what you fear and fear disappears.
David Joseph Schwartz (19??-19??) U.S. motivational expert, author

~ Inaction breeds fear. Action breeds courage.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) U.S. self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking & interpersonal skills lecturer, author

~ It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English writer, Anglican clergyman

~ Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.
David Joseph Schwartz (19??-19??) U.S. motivational expert, author

~ If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) U.S. self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking & interpersonal skills lecturer, author

~ The one who takes action now despite fear will be the one who later has conquered fear.
Zirah Daigle, contemporary U.S. Marine, entrepreneur

~ The important thing is to take the first step. Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

~ Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) U.S. self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills lecturer and author

~ Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move. Walk to the well. Turn as the earth and moon turn, circling what they love.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273) Persian poet, mystic

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