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

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

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Dyson, Freeman

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Bryant, Jean

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Eric Schmidt

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Bible

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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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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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

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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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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 of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Craig, Roger

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo