Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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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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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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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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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

Johnson, John

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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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 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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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

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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

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison