Motivational Quotes

Fear

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Seneca

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Wrigley Jr., William

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Downes, Donald

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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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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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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 proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Theodosia Garrison

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John