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

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ferdinand Foch

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

10.

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

11.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

12.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

13.

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

Hill, 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 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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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

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

Epictetus

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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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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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

28.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Seneca

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

Taylor Swift

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

33.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nightingale, Florence

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Downes, Donald

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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