Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

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!!

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Edmund Burke

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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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

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

Seneca

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Paul, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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

George Carlin

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Maltz, Maxwell