Fear Quotes - Page 10

• Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

  Francis Quarles

  Literature, Action, Resolution

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.18

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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

  Love, Fire, Constant

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

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• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

  Tacitus

  Perfect, Doe, Causes

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• Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

  Tecumseh

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Native American

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

  Alice Walker

  Lonely, Freedom, Loneliness

  Alice Walker (2011). “In Search of Our Mother's Gardens”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

  Emile Zola

  Fate, Animal, Men

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• Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Courage, Fall, Flew

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• When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Reality, Shadow

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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• Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

  Thomas Fuller

  Running, Bravery, Graphic Design

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• It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

  Jim Butcher

  Jobs

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.443, Penguin

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• If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Disappointment, Attitude, Fall

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.21, CLC Publications

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• Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Inspirational, Teacher, Being Afraid

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• I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

  Bob Dylan

  Acceptance, People, Silence

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• Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Self, House, Treasure

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• Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Doubt, Atheism, Faces

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• We invent what we love and what we fear.

  John Irving

  Psychology

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Design, Doubt, Woven

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• A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

  Chanakya

  Long, May

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• They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Inspirational, Failure, Succeed

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• A man who has been in danger,
  When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
  And sometimes he forgets his promises.

  Euripides

  Men, Promise, Forget

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women”

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• Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.

  Ilya Kabakov

  Art, Mean, Reason

  "Taking Flight: Inspiration And Techniques To Give Your Creative Spirit Wings". Book by Kelly Rae Roberts, 2008.

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• Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Failure, Events, Elements

  Newell Dwight Hillis (1911). “The Contagion of Character: Studies in Culture and Success”

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• There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Inspirational, Failure, Hazards

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