Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

- Bell, James F.

Best Quotes about Fear

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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.

2.

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

3.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

4.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

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

Seneca

6.

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

Northcote, James

7.

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

Eric Hoffer

8.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

9.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

Ferdinand Foch

11.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Davis, Elmer

18.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

19.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

20.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

21.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

22.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

23.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

24.

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

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

26.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

27.

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

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

30.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

31.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

32.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

33.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

35.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

36.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

37.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

38.

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

39.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

40.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

41.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

42.

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.