Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

- Bell, James F.

Best Quotes about Fear

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Francis Quarles

Fear is what kills us.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Bradbury, Ray

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nightingale, Florence

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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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

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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

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.