Motivational Quotes

Fear

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

- Berryman, John

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is what kills us.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Northcote, James

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

Ferdinand Foch

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Francis Quarles

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Edmund Burke

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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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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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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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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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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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean