Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Axiom, Grandma

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Taylor Swift

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

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Nightingale, Florence

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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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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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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 is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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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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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Seneca

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

Craig, Roger

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.