Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Craig, Roger

Best Quotes about Fear

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Seneca

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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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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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Seneca

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von