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

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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.

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

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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.

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

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Bible

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.