Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Axiom, Grandma

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Francis Quarles

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

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

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

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

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

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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 most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon