Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Carnegie, Dale

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

25.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bible

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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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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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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