Motivational Quotes

Fear

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Fear

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Eric Schmidt

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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 anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Smith, Frederick

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Anderson, Marian