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

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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.

2.

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

3.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

4.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

5.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

6.

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

7.

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

8.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

9.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

10.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

12.

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

Carnegie, Dale

13.

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.

14.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

18.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

19.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

20.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

21.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

22.

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

Eric Schmidt

23.

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.

24.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

25.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

26.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

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

Ann Radcliffe

28.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

29.

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

30.

Fear is what kills us.

31.

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

Downes, Donald

32.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

33.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Seneca

37.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

38.

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