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

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Taylor Swift

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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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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Fear is what kills us.

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

Kafka, Franz

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