Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

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

Francis Quarles

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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 is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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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

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

Downes, Donald

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom