Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

- Craig, Roger

Best Quotes about Fear

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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

Epictetus

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

George Carlin

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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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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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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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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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 the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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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

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.