Motivational Quotes

Fear

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

- Gillies, Jerry

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Renard, Jules

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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

Taylor Swift

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Bradbury, Ray

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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