Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Axiom, Grandma

Best Quotes about Fear

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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

Bible

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.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Seneca

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

Taylor Swift

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

29.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Nightingale, Florence

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Smith, Frederick

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Axiom, Grandma

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.