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 on fear
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"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."

Cervantes, Miguel De on fear   

"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. on fear   

"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 on fear
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"It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter"

Churchill, Winston on fear
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"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fear   

"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. on fear   

"He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear."

Claudianus, Claudius on fear   

"If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars."

Clough, Arthur Hugh on fear   

"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."

Colton, Charles Caleb on fear   

"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 on fear   

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

Craig, Roger on fear   

"Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on fear
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"Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die."

Dale, Stan on fear
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"It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way."

Dale, Stan on fear   

"A fighter has to know fear."

D'Amato, Cus on fear   

"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 on fear
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"The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you."

Davis, Elmer on fear   

"Fear is the biggest motivator."

Dixon, Bill on fear   

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

Downes, Donald on fear   

"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 on fear   

"He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."

Dryden, John on fear
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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 on fear   

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

Dyson, Freeman on fear   

"He without fear is king of the world."

Eddison, E. E. on fear   

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."

Eliot, T. S. on fear
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Fear always springs from ignorance."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Always do what you are afraid to do."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship."

Epictetus on fear
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"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."

Ford, Henry on fear
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"Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing."

Foreman, Ed on fear
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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. on fear   

"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."

Frankl, Viktor E. on fear   

"There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them."

Frost, Robert on fear
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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 on fear   

"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 on fear   

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

Godard, Jean-Luc on fear   

"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 on fear
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