Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Axiom, Grandma

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Ann Radcliffe

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.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

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

Eric Schmidt

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.

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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

King, Billie Jean

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Seneca

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Johnson, John

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Kafka, Franz

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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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

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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