Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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 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

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

George Carlin

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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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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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.

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Davis, Elmer

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward