Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Axiom, Grandma

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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.

Bertrand Russell

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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 failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

King, Billie Jean

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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.

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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

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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.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Seneca

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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.