Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action conquers fear.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about 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

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Scheele, Paul R.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Anderson, Marian

10.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

12.

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

Epictetus

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

16.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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

20.

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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

32.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

33.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

35.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Ferdinand Foch

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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

40.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

44.

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

Hoffer, Eric

45.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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