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

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

10.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

11.

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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

14.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

21.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

26.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

27.

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

30.

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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Renard, Jules

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Dale, Stan

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

Brown, Les

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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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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.