Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Seneca

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Downes, Donald

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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

George Carlin

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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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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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

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

Brown, Les

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Taylor Swift

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De