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• I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Death, Sarcastic

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• Without fear there cannot be courage.

  Christopher Paolini

  Bravery, Saphira, Overcoming Fear

  "Dragons Get a Modern Image Makeover". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. January 27, 2007.

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• One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life, Motivational, Business

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• We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.

  Eve Curie

  War, Pride, Rights

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• When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.

  Andy Griffith

  Respect, Gun, Men

  "Fictional character: Andy Taylor". TV Series "The Andy Griffith Show", 1960-1968.

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  Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

  Jim Carrey

  Life, Success, Opportunity

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• If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.

  Sydney Banks

  Inspirational, Change, Learning

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• You can never get rid of fear, you can only drop it.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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• The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames;
  Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves.
  When eagles are in view, the screaming doves
  Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety.

  Colley Cibber

  Men, Feet, Eagles

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• Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

  Samuel Johnson

  Guilt, Flight

  Samuel Johnson, A.F. Neuwieller (1857). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.12

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• The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Courage, Decision

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• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.

  Henry Fielding

  Justice, Faults, Sides

  Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott (1831). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”, p.91

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• A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

  "Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet". Book by Georges Clemenceau, 1930.

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• Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Change, Encouraging

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• Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Views, Novelty, Absurdity

  William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”

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• Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

  John Marston

  Apprehension

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267-70, Antonio's Revenge, Prolog, 1922.

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• Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Leadership

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

  Stanislav Grof

  Important, Spirituality, Type

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.267, SUNY Press

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• We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Righteous Man, Danger

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.159, Princeton University Press

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• Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Children, Yesterday, Riding

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Looks, Kill Me

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1123

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• You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.

  Milton Resnick

  Memories, Panic, Bottom

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• Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.

  Thomas Paine

  Mutual Love, Links, Chains

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.17

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• We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Believe, Mean, Uncomfortable Situations

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