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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

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

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

Nightingale, Florence

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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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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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

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

Johnson, John

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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

Dryden, John

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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Fear is what kills us.