Motivational Quotes

Fear

A fighter has to know fear.

- D'Amato, Cus

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

8.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

9.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

10.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

11.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

12.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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

14.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

16.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

17.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

18.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

19.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

20.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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Fear is what kills us.

22.

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

Northcote, James

23.

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

24.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

25.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

26.

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

27.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

29.

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

Ann Radcliffe

30.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

Carnegie, Dale

32.

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

Patton, George S.

33.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

34.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

35.

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

Anderson, Marian

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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

37.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

44.

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

45.

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

46.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

47.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

48.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De