Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Davis, Elmer

Best Quotes about Fear

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

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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 can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Northcote, James

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.