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

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bradbury, Ray

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Edmund Burke

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Seneca

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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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Eric Schmidt

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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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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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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Fear is what kills us.