Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Axiom, Grandma

Best Quotes about Fear

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.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

Dryden, John

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

Seneca

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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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

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Taylor Swift

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

Downes, Donald

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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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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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Axiom, Grandma

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