Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Axiom, Grandma

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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

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!!

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

Patton, George S.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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.

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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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 has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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

Seneca

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Eric Hoffer

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.