Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Fear

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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

Ferdinand Foch

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Bradbury, Ray

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

George Carlin

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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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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

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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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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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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 the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Francis Quarles

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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 has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.