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

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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.

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

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

Smith, Frederick

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

George Carlin

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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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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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

Brown, Les

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

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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.

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

Kafka, Franz

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal