Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Peter McWilliams

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Johnson, 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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Kafka, Franz

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Dryden, John

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

Renard, Jules

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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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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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.