Motivational Quotes

Fear

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Maclaren, Alexander

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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.

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

Kafka, Franz

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Johnson, John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Eric Schmidt

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Edmund Burke

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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.