Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Davis, Elmer

Best Quotes about Fear

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Taylor Swift

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 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

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

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.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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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

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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.

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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

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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

Seneca

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.