Fear

 

Babe Ruth

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
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Napoleon I
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.:
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Author Unknown
“A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.”
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Robin Williams
“The things which we fear the most in life have already happened to us.”
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Marie Curie
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.:
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Author Unknown
“Fear:  False Evidence Appearing Real.”
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Author Unknown
“He who fears something gives it power over him.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
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Oscar Wilde
“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
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Byron Janis
“Fear breeds fear.”
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Author Unknown
“Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.”
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Aesop
“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”
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Voltaire
“Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.”
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Author Unknown
“Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.”
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Michael Pritchard
“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.”
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Author Unknown
“You don't face your fears, you stand up to them.”
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Lactantius
“Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.”
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Author Unknown
“Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of it.”
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Aristotle
“Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.”
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Bertrand Russell
“All forms of fear produce fatigue.”
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Author Unknown
“Fear is the prison of the heart.”
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Bertrand Russell
“The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.”
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Author Unknown
“Fear not that your life will someday end. Fear only that you do nothing with it.”
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A. C. Benson
“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.”
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Livy
“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
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Author Unknown
FEAR is just a four letter word
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T.A. Sachs
“To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.”
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Mohandas Gandhi
“Fear has its use but cowardice has none.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
"God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary."
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
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Mark Twain
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
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Mark Twain
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
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Joel Osteen
“Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
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Aristotle
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
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John F. Kennedy
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”
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John Berryman
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.”
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Marcel Proust
“People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.”
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Leonardo da Vinci
“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.”
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Samuel Butler

“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.”
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Author Unknown
“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.”
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Brendan Francis
“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.”
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Christopher Coan
“Fear cannot take what you do not give it.”
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Bertrand Russell
“Those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
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Ruth Gendler
“Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.”
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Bertrand Russell
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
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Jawaharlal Nehru
“A man who is afraid will do anything.”
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Marcus Annaeus Seneca
“Where fear is, happiness is not.”
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Marie Curie
“Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.”
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Usman B. Asif
“Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson
“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.”
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Andre Gide
“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
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Mary Tricky
“Fear is faith that it won't work out.”
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Arnold Glasow
“Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.”
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Henry H. Tweedy
“Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.”
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Marcus Annaeus Seneca
“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.”
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“What begins in fear usually ends in folly.”
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Katherine Paterson
“To fear is one thing.  To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”
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George S. Patton
“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”
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Mary Manin Morrissey
“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
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Aeschylus
“There are times when fear is good.  It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.”
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Betty Bender
“Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.”
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2 Timothy 1:7
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
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Eric Hoffer
“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”
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Eddie Rickenbacher
“Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.”
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Billy Graham
“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.”
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Corra Harris
“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.”
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Morihei Ueshiba
“Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.”
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Elbert Hubbard
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.”
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2 Timothy 1:7
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
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Edmund Burke
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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John M. Wilson
“Fear, if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release.”
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James F. Bell
“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.”
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Lloyd C. Douglas
“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.”
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Henry Louis Mencken
“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.”
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Brendan Francis
“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.”
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Frederick W. Cropp
“There is much in the world to make us afraid.  There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.”
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George Matthew Adams
“A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.”
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Lloyd Douglas
“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.”
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Erica Jong
“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.”
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Lady Bird Johnson
“The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
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Ambrose Redmoon
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’"
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Matthew 8:26
“And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.”
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George S. Patton
“I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?’”
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Thucydides
“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.”
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Rodan of Alexandria
“Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.”
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Bertrand Russell
“Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.”
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Ambrose Redmoon
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
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1 John. 4:18
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
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Louis E. Boone
“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
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Dale Carnegie
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
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H. P. Lovecraft
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
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David Seabury
“Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.”
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Elenor Roosevelt
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself. "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
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John F. Milburn
“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.”
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Orison Swett Marden
“Obstacles are like wild animals.  They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.  If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.”
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Frank Herbert
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
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