Motivational Quotes

Fear

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Fear

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Northcote, James

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

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

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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 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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Shakespeare, William

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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 can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

21.

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

Bible

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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 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 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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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Patton, George S.

32.

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Renard, Jules

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Taylor Swift

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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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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.

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

George Carlin