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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Bible

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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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 truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Edmund Burke

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

Francis Quarles

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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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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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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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 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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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

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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

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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.

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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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