Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Axiom, Grandma

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Frances Moore Lappe

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Parsons, Wendell

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Theodosia Garrison

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Davis, Elmer

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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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

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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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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Action conquers fear.