Motivational Quotes

Fear

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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Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Paul, Jean

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Northcote, James

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Taylor Swift

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

Renard, Jules

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe