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

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

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

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Northcote, James

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Shakespeare, William

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Seneca

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Eric Schmidt

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Downes, Donald