Motivational Quotes

Fear

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Fear

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Davis, Elmer

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Bible

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Smith, Frederick

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Bryant, Jean

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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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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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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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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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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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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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.