Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Fear

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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!!

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Bible

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Downes, Donald

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.