Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Epictetus

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dryden, John

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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 is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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

Taylor Swift

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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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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.