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Fear

Fear is what kills us.

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Best Quotes about Fear

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

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb, Moorish

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.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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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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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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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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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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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus