Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

- Bell, James F.

Best Quotes about Fear

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Fear is what kills us.

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

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

George Carlin

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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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

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Northcote, James

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.