Motivational Quotes

Fear

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Maclaine, Shirley

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Dyson, Freeman

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.

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

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

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

Foreman, Ed

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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

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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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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Davis, Elmer

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Downes, Donald

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea