Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Axiom, Grandma

Best Quotes about Fear

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

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

Downes, Donald

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

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

10.

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

Eric Schmidt

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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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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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Ann Radcliffe

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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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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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon