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

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

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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

10.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

11.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

13.

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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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

32.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

George Carlin

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus