Being Afraid Quotes

• True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Jobs, Firefighter, True Courage

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• The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

  Ruby Dee

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Questioning

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• Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

  Pat Paulsen

  Fear, Breast Cancer, Men

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• In time we hate that which we often fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Fear, Hate

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 12

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  Ted Turner

  Lonely, Strong Women, Loneliness

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  H. L. Mencken

  Courage, Fear, Men

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Fear, Halloween

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• Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

  Paulo Coelho

  Risk, Disillusionment, Disillusioned

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

  Anne Frank

  Lonely, Nature, Loneliness

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Attitude, Fear, War

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• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

  James F. Byrnes

  Life, Happiness, Death

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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

  Love, Life, Death

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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• It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

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• What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, What If, Dirt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Lonely

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Graduation, Commitment, Two

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Bullying

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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  Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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  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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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