Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Proverb, Moorish

Best Quotes about Fear

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 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 is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Kafka, Franz

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Dryden, John

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Bryant, Jean

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

George Carlin

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.