959 private quotes tagged fear

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

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“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” — Bruce Lee

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“There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.” — Conan O'Brien

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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” — C. S. Lewis

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“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.” — Aristotle

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“In time we hate that which we often fear.” — William Shakespeare

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“Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” — Marilyn Monroe

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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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“Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.” — Yousef Munayyer

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“The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.” — Sylvia Browne

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“I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.” — Tupac Shakur

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“Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.” — Saint Francis de Sales

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“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.” — Aristotle

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“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.” — Aristotle

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“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?” — Confucius

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“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.” — Lao Tzu

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“Fear makes us feel our humanity.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.” — Thomas Fuller

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“It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.” — Albert Einstein

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“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.” — Thomas J. Watson

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“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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