Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Carnegie, Dale

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Smith, Frederick

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Anderson, Marian

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Edmund Burke

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

Downes, Donald

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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 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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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