Motivational Quotes

Fear

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

- Susan Jeffers

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Johnson, John

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Nightingale, Florence

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

10.

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

11.

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

Edmund Burke

12.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

13.

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

Taylor Swift

14.

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

Smith, Frederick

15.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

25.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Epictetus

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Fear is what kills us.

32.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Ann Radcliffe

34.

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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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

43.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Francis Quarles

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

Renard, Jules

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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