Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

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

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

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

George Carlin

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Foreman, Ed

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Johnson, John

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De