Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about 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

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Brown, Les

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

George Carlin

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

Nightingale, Florence

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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 without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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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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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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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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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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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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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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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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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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.

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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

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard