Motivational Quotes

Fear

People die of fright and live of confidence.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Ferdinand Foch

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Anderson, Marian

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.