Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

- Bell, James F.

Best Quotes about Fear

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Thompson, Dorothy

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Seneca

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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 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 is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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