959 private quotes tagged fear

“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.” — Wayne Rooney

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“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.” — Umberto Eco

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“The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.” — Clarence Darrow

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“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” — John Dryden

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“At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.” — Jesse Jackson

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“I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.” — Scott Adams

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“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” — Nikos Kazantzakis

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“Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.” — Henry A. Wallace

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“In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.” — Titus Livius

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“There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.” — Abu Bakr

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“Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.” — Douglas Horton

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“Dare to be honest and fear no labor.” — Robert Burns

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“Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.” — Samuel Goldwyn

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“If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.” — Jack Nicholson

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“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

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“My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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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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“I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.” — Jeff Bridges

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“The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.” — Abu Bakr

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