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Fear QuotesFamous Fear quotes by popular authors such as Bertrand Russell, George S. Patton, Jim Morrison, Marcus Annaeus Seneca, Virgil and others.
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[highlight-text]Fear breeds fear.
Byron Janis
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[highlight-text]All fear is bondage.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Fear is uncertainty.
Eric Hoffer
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[highlight-text]Fear is faithlessness.
George Macdonald
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[highlight-text]Fear is the highest fence.
Dudley Nichols
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[highlight-text]There is no devil but fear.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Love is letting go of fear.
Gerald Jampolsky
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[highlight-text]Humor acts to relieve fear.
Dr. William F. Fry
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[highlight-text]Fear is stronger than arms.
Aeschylus
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[highlight-text]This is the century of fear.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]Fear is the start of wisdom.
Miguel de Unamuno
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[highlight-text]Fear betrays unworthy souls.
Virgil
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[highlight-text]Fear is the absence of faith.
Paul Tillich
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[highlight-text]Fear is the parent of cruelty.
James A. Froude
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[highlight-text]Fear has a smell as Love does.
Margaret Atwood
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[highlight-text]The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]Where fear is happiness is not.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Fear is the prison of the heart.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Only your mind can produce fear.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]I am never afraid of what I know.
Anna Sewell
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[highlight-text]All forms of fear produce fatigue.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]We fear the thing we want the most.
Robert Anthony
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[highlight-text]Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus
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[highlight-text]Fear always springs from ignorance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
Neil Armstrong
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[highlight-text]A man who is afraid will do anything.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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[highlight-text]Where no hope is left is left no fear.
John Milton
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[highlight-text]The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Arthur Wellesley
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[highlight-text]Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]In doubt fear is the worst of prophets.
Statius
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[highlight-text]Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
Virgil
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[highlight-text]Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.
Malcolm Lowry
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[highlight-text]Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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[highlight-text]Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.
Florence Earle Coates
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[highlight-text]What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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[highlight-text]Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
Muriel Rukeyser
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[highlight-text]Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
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[highlight-text]To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]We must travel in the direction of our fear.
John Berryman
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[highlight-text]We're frightened of what makes us different.
Anne Rice
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[highlight-text]We all fear what we don't know-it's natural.
Leo Buscaglia
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[highlight-text]The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Max Ehrmann
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[highlight-text]Fear born of that stern matron Responsibility.
William McFee
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[highlight-text]The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
William Wrigley
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[highlight-text]Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.
Leonardo da Vinci
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[highlight-text]Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.
Cardinal de Retz
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[highlight-text]He who fears something gives it power over him.
Moorish Proverb
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[highlight-text]The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
A. E. Housman
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[highlight-text]Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.
Ralph Connor
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[highlight-text]Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
Ursula K. LeGuin
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[highlight-text]The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
Bible
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[highlight-text]Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
Jean Anouilh
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[highlight-text]A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
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[highlight-text]Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
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[highlight-text]When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
Juvenal
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[highlight-text]The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
Carl Jung
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[highlight-text]Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson
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[highlight-text]When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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[highlight-text]There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben Jonson
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[highlight-text]There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
John Wainwright
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[highlight-text]The craven's fear is but selfishness like his merriment.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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[highlight-text]If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.
Bill W.
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[highlight-text]Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
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[highlight-text]There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
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[highlight-text]As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
Norman Mailer
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[highlight-text]There is no terror in the bang only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred Hitchcock
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[highlight-text]If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock
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[highlight-text]We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.
Ron Meyer
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[highlight-text]There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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[highlight-text]The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
Jacques Benigne Bossuel
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[highlight-text]There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide
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[highlight-text]I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.
Frances Newton
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[highlight-text]A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
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[highlight-text]Keep your fears to yourself but share your inspiration with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]The flocks fear the wolf the crops the storm and the trees the wind.
Virgil
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[highlight-text]In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Fear can be headier than whisky once man has acquired a taste for it.
Donald Dowries
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[highlight-text]We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.
Lee Trevino
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[highlight-text]Look not back in anger nor forward in fear but around you in awareness.
Ross Hersey
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[highlight-text]Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
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[highlight-text]As a rule men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Julius Caesar
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[highlight-text]The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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[highlight-text]He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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[highlight-text]No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust
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[highlight-text]Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
William Faulkner
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[highlight-text]In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?
Hannah More
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[highlight-text]All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.
James de Mille
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[highlight-text]When men are ruled by fear they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
Alan Paton
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[highlight-text]O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]If you want to conquer fear don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
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[highlight-text]If you're afraid to ask the question it's probably because you already know the answer.
Miriam M. Wynn
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[highlight-text]We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good true and serious.
Brenda Ueland
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[highlight-text]There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
Joanna Field
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[highlight-text]No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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[highlight-text]We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Fear is created not by the world around us but in the mind by what we think is going to happen.
Elizabeth Gawain
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[highlight-text]The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
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[highlight-text]I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
Angela L. Wozniak
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[highlight-text]To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is in fact the consuming illness of our time.
Harry A. Overstreet
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[highlight-text]There is nothing in the universe that I fear but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.
Mary Lyon
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[highlight-text]One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Miguel de Cervantes
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[highlight-text]The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear.
Paul Parker
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[highlight-text]Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the most cruel.
Georges Bernanos
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[highlight-text]Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.
O. J. Simpson
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[highlight-text]The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
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[highlight-text]Fear if allowed free rein would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men for whom only death could bring release.
John M. Wilson
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[highlight-text]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.
Dale Carnegie
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[highlight-text]Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]If a man harbors any sort of fear it percolates through all his thinking damages his personality makes him landlord to a ghost.
Lloyd C. Douglas
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[highlight-text]If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
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[highlight-text]Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton
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[highlight-text]Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve
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[highlight-text]We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]How does one kill fear I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by the spectral throat?
Joseph Conrad
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[highlight-text]Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.
James F. Bell
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[highlight-text]I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Erica Jong
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[highlight-text]You gain strength experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves; to like themselves.
Bonaro Overstreet
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[highlight-text]The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental moral and spiritual asphyxiation and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.
Horace Fletcher
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[highlight-text]The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.
Dorothy Thompson
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[highlight-text]It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus
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[highlight-text]All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
George S. Patton
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[highlight-text]People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
Eric Hoffer
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[highlight-text]The horse does abominate the camel; the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse; and they say that the lion which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal will tremble at the crowing of a cock.
Increase Mather
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[highlight-text]Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Tacitus
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[highlight-text]The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.
John Lennon
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[highlight-text]We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one fear of the dark; to another of physical pain; to a third of public ridicule; to a fourth of poverty; to a fifth of loneliness ... for all of us our particular creature waits in ambush.
Horace Walpole
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[highlight-text]Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.
John F. Milburn
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[highlight-text]The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision turn off all your fears and go ahead.
George S. Patton
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[highlight-text]Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear it makes you more alert like a deer coming across the lawn.
Mike Tyson
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[highlight-text]Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared for their love is held by a chain of obligation which because of men's wickedness is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit; but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
Niccolo Machiavelli