Motivational Quotes

Fear

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Frances Moore Lappe

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Paul, Jean

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Anderson, Marian

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

King, Billie Jean

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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