Motivational Quotes

Fear

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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.

Carnegie, Dale

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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

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.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Northcote, James

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Maltz, Maxwell

11.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Renard, Jules

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

20.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

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

Eric Hoffer

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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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.

39.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Epictetus

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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