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

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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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 is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale