Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Seneca

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

Johnson, John

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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.