Fear Quotes

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  Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

  Marie Curie

  Life, Encouraging, Being Strong

  "Our Precarious Habitat". Book by Melvin A. Benarde, 1970.

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• 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.

  James F. Bell, III

  Block, Mind, Viruses

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• Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Inspirational, Liars, Novelists

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

  George Lucas

  Depression, Hate, Anger

  Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

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• A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 18, 2014

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• Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Thinking, Compassion

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.106, Routledge

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• Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

  Anwar Sadat

  Believe, People, Soul

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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  Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

  Aristotle

  Freedom, Athlete, Words Of Wisdom

  "Florilegium". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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• A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happy Life, Men, World Suffering

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• FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Real, Acronyms, Language

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• Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, God, Enemy

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  Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Courage, Men, Safety

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• The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

  Bertrand Russell

  Overcoming, Overcoming Fear, Delightful

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “On Education”, p.65, Routledge

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• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”, p.281

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  I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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  In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• 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.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Heretics Of Dune: The Fifth Dune Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

  Florence Nightingale

  Motivational, Women, Nursing

  "The Book of Positive Quotations" by John Cook, (p. 479), 2007.

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