Motivational Quotes

Fear

Great fear is concealed under daring.

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Renard, Jules

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

10.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

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

12.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

13.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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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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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

20.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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 the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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

24.

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

Carnegie, Dale

25.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

30.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

31.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

32.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

33.

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

34.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

37.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

40.

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

Dryden, John

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

45.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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