959 private quotes tagged fear

“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.” — Samuel Butler

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“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.” — André Gide

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“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.” — Aeschylus

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“Excessive fear is always powerless.” — Aeschylus

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“When a match has equal partners then I fear not.” — Aeschylus

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“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.” — Khalil Gibran

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“A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.” — Dave Barry

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“I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.” — Martin Luther

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“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.” — Thomas Paine

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“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.” — Corrie Ten Boom

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“When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.” — Voltaire

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“The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.” — Winston Churchill

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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.” — Bill Gates

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“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” — Julius Caesar

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“The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.” — Charles Rangel

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“A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.” — Michael Morpurgo

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“Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.” — Ryan White

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