Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Eric Hoffer

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Downes, Donald

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

28.

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

King, Billie Jean

29.

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, John

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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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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Smith, Frederick

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Renard, Jules

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

Edmund Burke

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Seneca

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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