Fear Quotations
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Bertrand Russell
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| There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. |
| - Aeschylus |
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| Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. |
| - Betty Bender |
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| Courage is fear that has said its prayers. |
| - Dorothy Bernard |
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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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| 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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| Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| Fear makes us feel our humanity. |
| - Benjamin Disraeli |
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| He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. |
| - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach |
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| Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. |
| - Brendan Francis |
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| Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. |
| - Brendan Francis |
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| There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. |
| - André Gide |
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| Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. |
| - Arnold Glasow |
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| Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. |
| - Benjamin Graham |
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| Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it. |
| - Henry S. Haskins |
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| I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. |
| - Katharine Butler Hathaway |
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| It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. |
| - Eric Hoffer |
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| You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. |
| - Eric Hoffer |
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| 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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| 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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| I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. |
| - Frances Moore Lappe |
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| To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation. |
| - Peter McWilliams |
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| 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 Louis Mencken |
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| There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. |
| - George S. Patton |
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| Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. |
| - Michael Pritchard |
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| Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. |
| - German Proverb |
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| He who fears something gives it power over him. |
| - Moorish Proverb |
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| A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. |
| - Jean Paul Richter |
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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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| Those who fear life are already three parts dead. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear. |
| - T.A. Sachs |
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| Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. |
| - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. |
| - Publilius Syrus |
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