Motivational Quotes

Fear

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Maclaine, Shirley

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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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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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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, John

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is what kills us.

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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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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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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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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

Bible

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird