Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Ann Radcliffe

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Carlyle, Thomas

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Brown, Les

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Seneca

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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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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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

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

George Carlin

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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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

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von