Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Bible

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Paul, Jean

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Fear is what kills us.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

King, Billie Jean

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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

23.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Action conquers fear.