Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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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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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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Parsons, Wendell

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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

37.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Dyson, Freeman

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

Johnson, Samuel

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.