Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the mind killer

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Fear

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Eric Hoffer

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie 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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

18.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Dyson, Freeman

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Northcote, James

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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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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.