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

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

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Renard, Jules

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. 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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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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 makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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

Northcote, James

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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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 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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo