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• He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

  John Dryden

  Life Lesson, Learning, Anxiety

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• No one loves the man whom he fears.

  Aristotle

  Relationship, Anger, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Pp. 267-270, 1922.

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• It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

  Yann Martel

  Opponents, Defeat, Life Of Pi Book

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.229, Canongate Books

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• The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.

  Marianne Williamson

  Book, Mean, Years

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• One who fears failure limits his activities.

  Henry Ford

  Failure, Limits, Overcoming Fear

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.14, 谷月社

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• Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

  Publilius Syrus

  Memorial Day, Courage, Remembrance

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 63,

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• We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Famous Motivational, Powerful God

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Dust, Atheism

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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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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• We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Running Away, Suppressing, Living In Fear

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

  Marie Curie

  Understanding, Meaningful Life, Great Science

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• Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Running, Men

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

  William H. Wharton

  Texas, Mexican, Dread

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• When you buy into any version of fear, it can become your experience because your molecules are intelligent and your energy responds to the predominant feeling in your being. The focus of your mind is exactly what gives the orders to create what you experience.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Intelligent, Order, Giving

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.53, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.

  Bernie Glassman

  Order, Needs, Life Is

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• Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.

  Guy Finley

  Patience, Peace, Anger

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Jul 27, 2013

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• I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

  John Keats

  War, Failure, Greatness

  Letter to James Hessey, 8 October 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 374

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Educational, Failure

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Positive, Courage, Bravery

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• Never take counsel of your fears.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Patriotic

  Quoted as "a favorite maxim" Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson in "Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson" by Mary Anna Jackson, Prentice Press/Courier Journal, Ch. XIII, (p. 264), 1895.

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Epic

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

  Alexander Pope

  Wisdom, Angel, Fools Day

  An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)

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