Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

- George Sewell

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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!!

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

Paul, Jean

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Shakespeare, William

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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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

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Seneca

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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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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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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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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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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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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.

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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

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

Taylor Swift

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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

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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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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Scheele, Paul R.