959 private quotes tagged fear

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” — Bertrand Russell

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“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” — Aristotle

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“If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” — Dale Carnegie

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“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” — Madame Curie

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“Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.” — Eddie Rickenbacher

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“Courage is knowing what not to fear.” — Plato

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“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“To him who is in fear everything rustles.” — Sophocles

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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” — Albert Camus

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“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” — Mark Twain

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“Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.” — Jack Lemmon

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“Fear is the mother of morality.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” — Dale Carnegie

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“God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.” — Charles Stanley

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“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“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

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“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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