Motivational Quotes

Fear

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Smith, Frederick

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Taylor Swift

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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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 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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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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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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Patton, George S.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Kafka, Franz

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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 is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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