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

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

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

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Johnson, John

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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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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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 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 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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Theodosia Garrison

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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

Brown, Les

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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