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

Maclaine, Shirley

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Smith, Frederick

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

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Shakespeare, William

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Seneca

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Epictetus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Downes, Donald

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian