959 private quotes tagged fear

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” — Nelson Mandela

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

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“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” — Alan Watts

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“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.” — Albert Einstein

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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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“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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“My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.” — Franz Kafka

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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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“The mark of fear is not easily removed.” — Ernest Gaines

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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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“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

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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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“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.” — Voltaire

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“When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.” — Francis Bacon

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“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.” — Plato

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“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.” — George Eliot

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“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.” — George S. Patton

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“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” — Mark Twain

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“He that hopes no good fears no ill.” — Thomas Fuller

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