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

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Akhenaton

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Kafka, Franz

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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!!

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

Craig, Roger

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

Seneca

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Northcote, James

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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 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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Seneca

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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?