Fear Quotes - Page 9

• Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

  Peter McWilliams

  Moved

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• Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Coward, Use

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Honesty, Acceptance

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.474, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I failed my way to success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Innovation

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• The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

  Martha Stout

  Sympathy, Compassion, People

  Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.107, Harmony

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• Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions.

  Harvey Dorfman

  Freedom, Thinking, Self

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  Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Daughter, Religious, Nature

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.196, University of Georgia Press

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• Fear is the passion of slaves.

  Patrick Henry

  4th Of July, Passion, American Revolution

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• Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

  John Calvin

  Sailing, Mind, Reason Why

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.

  Ilya Kabakov

  Art, Mean, Reason

  "Taking Flight: Inspiration And Techniques To Give Your Creative Spirit Wings". Book by Kelly Rae Roberts, 2008.

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• I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, Men, Years

  "True at First Light". Book by Ernest Hemingway, ch. 17, 1999.

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• A man who has been in danger,
  When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
  And sometimes he forgets his promises.

  Euripides

  Men, Promise, Forget

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women”

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• The greatest works of admiration,
  And all the fair examples of renown.
  Out of distress and misery are grown.

  Samuel Daniel

  Example, Misery, Admiration

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.362

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• We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Way, Forget

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• The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

  Emile Zola

  Fate, Animal, Men

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• Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Inspirational, Teacher, Being Afraid

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• Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Failure, Events, Elements

  Newell Dwight Hillis (1911). “The Contagion of Character: Studies in Culture and Success”

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• We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

  Sue Grafton

  Passion, Dark, People

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• First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Fire, Constant

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• Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

  Tecumseh

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Native American

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

  Jim Butcher

  Jobs

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.443, Penguin

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• I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

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• There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inattention, Facts, Flight

  "Krishnamurti's notebook".

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• I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Life, Courage, Giving

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