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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
– George Eliot
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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
– George Eliot
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
– Epictetus
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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
– Epicurus
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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
– Erik H. Erikson
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
– Jean de La Fontaine
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
– Jean de La Fontaine
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I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.
– Matthew Fox
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Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
– Brendan Francis
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
– Viktor E. Frankl
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
– Benjamin Franklin
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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
– Robert Frost
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He that hopes no good fears no ill.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
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Scalded cats fear even cold water.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
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He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
– Giovanni Falcone
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
– Fernando Flores
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
– Indira Gandhi
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
– Kahlil Gibran
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
– Andre Gide
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
– Nadine Gordimer
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When desire dies, fear is born.
– Baltasar Gracian
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A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
– Julian Green
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
– Graham Greene
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
– Dan Gable
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The mark of fear is not easily removed.
– Ernest Gaines
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Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
– Arnold H. Glasow
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Fear is the mother of foresight.
– Thomas Hardy
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
– William Hazlitt
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He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
– Matthew Henry
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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
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One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
– Dustin Hoffman
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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
– Bell Hooks
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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
– Bell Hooks
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Do what you fear most and you control fear.
– Tom Hopkins
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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
– Doug Horton
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
– Zora Neale Hurston
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I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
– Thomas Henry Huxley
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In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
– King Hussein
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Fear is excitement without breath.
– Robert Heller
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The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.
– Lou Henry Hoover
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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.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
– Gerald Jampolsky
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What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
– Sonia Johnson
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There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.
– Rickie Lee Jones
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My fear is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
– Franz Kafka
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Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
– Charles Kennedy
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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
– John F. Kennedy
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Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
– Arthur Koestler
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A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
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What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
– Milan Kundera
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
– Rabbi Harold Kushner
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
– Jack Lemmon
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
– C. S. Lewis
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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
– George MacDonald
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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
– Horace Mann
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When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
– Horace Mann
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
– Abraham Maslow
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I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
– Dave Matthews
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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
– Mary McCarthy
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If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.
– Bryant H. McGill
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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
– Mignon McLaughlin
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Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
– Peter McWilliams
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To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
– Peter McWilliams
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
– Margaret Mead
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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
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The thing I fear most is fear.
– Michel de Montaigne
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
– Michel de Montaigne
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
– Charles de Montesquieu
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
– Charles de Montesquieu
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Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
– Bernard Law Montgomery
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The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
– Jim Morrison
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
– Jim Morrison
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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
– Lewis Mumford
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A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
– Edward P. Morgan
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Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
– Errol Morris
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Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
– Robert Mugabe
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I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.
– Stevie Nicks
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If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
– Stevie Nicks
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Fear is the mother of morality.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
– Florence Nightingale
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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
– Eugene O'Neill
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
– George Orwell
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
– Ovid
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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
– Pope John Paul II
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My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
– Evita Peron
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
– Plato
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Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
– Grace Paley
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The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
– Steve Perry
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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
– Persius
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
– Pliny
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The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
– James Knox Polk
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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
– Francis Quarles
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Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
– Francis Quarles
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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
– Dan Rather
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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