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Fear

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

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Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is what kills us.

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

Shakespeare, William

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wrigley Jr., William

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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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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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Renard, Jules

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Maclaine, Shirley