Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the mind killer

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smith, Frederick

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

Craig, Roger

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Eric Hoffer

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Seneca

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus