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

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

Parsons, Wendell

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

Seneca

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

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

Eric Schmidt

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Paul, Jean

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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 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.

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Downes, Donald

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe