Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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!!

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Dryden, John

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Smith, Frederick

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear is what kills us.

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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

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.