Motivational Quotes

Fear

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

- Dworkin, Andrea

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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

Patton, George S.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Bryant, Jean

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Dryden, John

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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

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Eric Schmidt

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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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 is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Bible

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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