Motivational Quotes

Fear

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

- Susan Jeffers

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

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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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 is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Eric Schmidt

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Shakespeare, William

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

25.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

36.

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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Eric Hoffer

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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