Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

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Best Quotes about Fear

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

Patton, George S.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Northcote, James

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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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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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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

Bible

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Paul, Jean