Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

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Best Quotes about Fear

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Kafka, Franz

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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 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 thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Seneca

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John