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

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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.

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

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Renard, Jules

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

Theodosia Garrison

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Taylor Swift

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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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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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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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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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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

36.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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