Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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

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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyson, Freeman

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, John

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

King, Billie Jean

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Seneca

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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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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.