Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Axiom, Grandma

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

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

Davis, Elmer

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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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

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

Eric Schmidt

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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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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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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The thing I fear most is fear.