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Fear

Fear is what kills us.

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Seneca

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

Johnson, John

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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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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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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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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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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.

Hoffer, Eric

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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