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“If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
Dale Carnegie
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
Dale Carnegie
“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.”
Dale Carnegie
“Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”
Dale Carnegie
“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.”
Dale Carnegie
“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.”
Dale Carnegie
“Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.”
Henry John Kaiser
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
Buddha
“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
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
Buddha
“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
“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”
Abraham Lincoln
“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”
Horace
“To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.”
Horace
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
Plato
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
Plato
“Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.”
Plato
“Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good”
Plato
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”
Aristotle
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
Aristotle
“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”
Aristotle
“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”
Aristotle
“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”
Aristotle
“No one loves the man whom he fears.”
Aristotle
“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”
Aristotle
“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
Stendhal
“The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.”
Stendhal
“A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.”
Honore de Balzac
“True nobility is exempt from fear.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
