Motivational Quotes

Fear

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Fear

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bryant, Jean

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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

11.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

George Carlin

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Dryden, John

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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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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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

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon