Overcome Quotes - Page 2

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

Fear is an uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love as if to keep it warm.

William Wordsworth

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Anonymous

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Aristotle

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

Henry Ward Beecher

Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can unthinking.

Sophocles

I sought the Lord and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears.

Bible

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.

Epicurus

Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.

Humor acts to relieve fear.

Dr. William F. Fry

If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Jean Kerr

Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

Henry Ward Beecher

Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Benjamin Disraeli

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.

Fear drives you and makes you better.

Donna E. Shalala

Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.

Leonardo da Vinci

In order to feel anything you need strength.

Anna Maria Ortese

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Aeschylus

A danger foreseen is half avoided.

If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

How does one kill fear? ... How do you shoot a specter through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by its spectral throat?

The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

When fear seizes change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.

Jean Craighead George

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

Edward R. Murrow

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

Mark Rutherford

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.

Federico Fellini

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

A cheerful frame of mind reinforced by relaxation which in itself banishes fatigue is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

George Matthew Adams

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!

Jean de La Fontaine

What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.

Pauline Rose Chance

I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.

Thomas Jefferson

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

J. C. F. von Schiller

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Who is more foolish the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

Maurice Freehill

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separ-ateness-the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination.

Jeraldine Saunders

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

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

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

Fear is stronger than arms.

Aeschylus

Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.

Better a fearful end than fear without end.

Anonymous

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

General George S. Patton

I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.

While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.

Elizabeth Goudge

But is a fence over which few leap.

There are always two voices sounding in our ears-the voice of fear and the voice of confidence. One is the clamor of the senses the other is the whispering of the higher self.

Charles B. Newcomb

Fear nothing for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons all sins into experience.

Katherine Tingley

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

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