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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country in a world based on fear.

We are afraid to care too much for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Samuel Butler

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Napoleon Hill

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Dale Carnegie

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

Mason Cooley

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it, those who have fear it.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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

Liberalism above all means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears his inadequacies from prejudice from discrimination from poverty.

Hubert H. Humphrey

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death the pain is over. Yeah I guess it is a friend.

All is to be feared where all is to be lost

Lord Byron

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Michel de Montaigne

Love is full of anxious fears.

Ovid

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

I did not consume any food drink or product from any of the hotels for fear of sabotage. The cooler was full of incredibly top-secret and potentially illegal water cereals jams bread salt pepper butter etc.

Lance Armstrong

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 Huxley

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it I order a massage and it goes away.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared for after all we have nothing to lose.

George Orwell

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

T. S. Eliot

He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

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.

This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall, Lord of himself though not of lands And leaving nothing yet hath all.

Lord Byron

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Thomas Fuller

Alas! The love of women! it is known to be a lovely and fearful thing!

Lord Byron

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

William Wordsworth

The greatest fear man can have is the fear of losing GOD's Love.

Sai Baba

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Ovid

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Henry Ford

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because if there be one he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

William Blake

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

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

Thomas Jefferson

Taking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear most.

Benjamin Disraeli

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

George Santayana

The joys of parents are secret and so are their grieves and fears.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Charles Lamb

Death is a fearful thing.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign is the jewel of the kingdom.

Sun Tzu

Fear clogs, faith liberates.

Elbert Hubbard

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Mignon McLaughlin

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and terror with which to accomplish its purgation of these emotions.

Aristotle

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Stendhal

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow free and open across international boundaries.

Harry S. Truman

Death is not the biggest fear we have, our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

A blade of grass is light cotton, is lighter the beggar, is infinitely lighter still. Why then does not the wind carry him away? Because it fears that he may ask alms of him.

Chanakya

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Richard Bach

When internal examination discovers nothing wrong what is there to be anxious about what is there to fear?

Confucius

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales so is the other.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Viktor E. Frankl

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

Taylor Swift

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

The fear of death often proves mortal and sets people on methods to save their Lives which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

The religious man fears the man of honor scorns to do an ill action

Joseph Addison

Be like the lions in the spiritual field rule over the forest of the senses and roam fearlessly with full faith in victory.

Sai Baba

The only failure one should fear is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

George Eliot

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

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Doug Coupland

What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends allies around the world.

Hillary Clinton

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

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

Fate loves the fearless.

James Russell Lowell

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

Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste, adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon

The joys of parents are secret and so are their griefs and fears.

Francis Bacon

In every cry of every man In every infant's cry of fear In every voice in every ban The mind-forged manacles I hear.

William Blake

While there's life there's fear.

Mason Cooley

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Arnold H. Glasow

It is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other and then in some practical way some daily way figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Alice Walker

The joys of parents are secret and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one nor will they utter the other

Francis Bacon

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Thomas Jefferson

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Thomas Carlyle

I had this dream and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Lady Gaga

My friends whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals a man fears everything, but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Aeschylus

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Julius Caesar

Divinity pervades all that you see hear and feel. Being in the constant company of such an all-pervasive divinity why should you worry and fear.

Sai Baba

The meaning I picked the one that changed my life: Overcome fear behold wonder.

Richard Bach

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Thomas Jefferson

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Barack Obama

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

Richard M. Nixon

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Babe Ruth

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Samuel Butler

Few women I fear have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.

Mitt Romney

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Plato

What each man feared would happen to himself did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

Virgil

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Ambrose Bierce

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Brian Tracy

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

David Herbert Lawrence

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing more to fear from them then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader.

Plato

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Emile M. Cioran

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Thomas Huxley

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources those who are poor illiterate and ridden with terminal disease.

Nelson Mandela

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway, we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Earl Nightingale

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Lucille Ball

I love the name of honor more than I fear death.

Julius Caesar

To give birth is a fearsome thing, there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

Sophocles

We promise in proportion to our hopes and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it, those who have fear it.

Homer

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

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame they kill, or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Simone Weil

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Bertrand Russell

Why you may take the most gallant sailor the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears

Winston Churchill

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

Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a simple faith that she had no fears at all and did not seem to mind very much.

Winston Churchill

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless and the other half discreditable.

Christian Nestell Bovee

When you develop your power of discrimination and become fully awake to the indwelling divinity you will not suffer sorrow nor be subjected to fear.

Sai Baba

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

Mencius

My hair is grey but not with years / Nor grew it white / In a single night / As men's have grown from sudden fears.

Lord Byron

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Bertrand Russell

When your time comes to die be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

Tecumseh

I do not shake or move If one devotes their entire time to me and rests in me need fear nothing for body and soul.

Sai Baba

We often pretend to fear what we really despise and more often despise what we really fear.

Charles Caleb Colton

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, adversity not without many comforts and hopes

Francis Bacon

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Francis of Assisi

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

Anton Chekhov

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Henry Miller

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid because freedom is on the march.

George W. Bush

Whether you like it or not you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Clint Eastwood

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

Love knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.

Sai Baba

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion anger fear and sadness and to me they're of equal value to happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Benjamin Disraeli

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift also its greatest curse is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Man seeks joy in far off places and peace in quiet spots, but the spring of joy is in his heart. the haven of peace is in himself. Even when he walks on the moon man has to take with him his fears his anxieties his prejudices and his pet aversions.

Sai Baba

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

Francis Bacon

One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears.

Sai Baba

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon

Prohibit the taking of omens and do away with superstitious doubts. Then until death itself comes no calamity need be feared.

Sun Tzu

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Emile M. Cioran

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

John Keats

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andre Gide

Where fear is happiness is not.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

Ovid

Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi

The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.

Sai Baba

When desire dies fear is born.

Baltasar Gracian

We gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Sophocles

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Lady Gaga

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear, and yet that commonly is the case of kings

Francis Bacon

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Limits like fear is often an illusion.

Michael Jordan

What the mind doesn't understand it worships or fears.

Alice Walker

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

As soon as the fear approaches near attack and destroy it.

Chanakya

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime because deep down it's not a legitimate regime it doesn't represent the will of the people it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

Hillary Clinton

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

Mitt Romney
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