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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Claudianus, Claudius

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Johnson, John

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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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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

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

George Carlin

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Seneca

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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