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

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

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

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Johnson, John

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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

Shakespeare, William

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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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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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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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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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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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.