Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

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

Frances Moore Lappe

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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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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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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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 is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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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

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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

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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

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Parsons, Wendell

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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.