959 private quotes tagged fear

“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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“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.” — Richard Bach

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“How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.” — George MacDonald

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“I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.” — Damien Hirst

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“This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.” — Laura Schlessinger

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“Fear is the foundation of most governments.” — John Adams

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“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.” — Francis of Assisi

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“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.” — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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“Don't fear change - embrace it.” — Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” — Babe Ruth

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“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.” — Richard Bach

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“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.” — Joseph Addison

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“Fear is the passion of slaves.” — Patrick Henry

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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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“I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.” — Erica Jong

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“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.” — Paul Sweeney

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“I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.” — Steven Seagal

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“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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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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“At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.” — Jacqueline Bisset

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“As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work it's about not having enough money.” — Paul Giamatti

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“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“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.” — Albert Ellis

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“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.” — Ovid

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