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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“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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“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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“There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.” — Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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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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