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

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

Epictetus

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

Ferdinand Foch

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

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

Thompson, Dorothy

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Renard, Jules

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

Axiom, Grandma

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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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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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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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Paul, Jean

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Bible

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio