959 private quotes tagged fear

“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.” — Joseph Joubert

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“There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?” — Garrett Hardin

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“My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.” — David Mamet

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“He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.” — Publilius Syrus

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“We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James A. Baldwin

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“Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.” — Cyril Connolly

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“An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.” — Jean Anouilh

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“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.” — William Shenstone

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“Fear is excitement without breath.” — Robert Heller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.” — John C. Maxwell

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“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” — J. K. Rowling

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“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.” — Jim Morrison

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