Motivational Quotes

Fear

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

- Ashe, Arthur

Best Quotes about Fear

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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 is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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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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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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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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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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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 is what kills us.

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

Downes, Donald

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Davis, Elmer

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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 sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil