Fear Quotes - Page 6

• Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

  Hannah Arendt

  Survival, Emotion, Indispensable

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• I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  FaceBook post by Nadia Comaneci from Apr 24, 2014

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• You can do anything you put your heart, mind and soul into. Far more than you can imagine. Be fearless. Do it.

  LL Cool J

  Motivational, Success, Believe

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• There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

  Mark Twain

  Halloween, Temptation, Coward

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 36

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• Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Worry, Hiding Place

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Might, Over Confidence, Shows

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• I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Half, Satan

  "The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of The Order of Our Lady of Carmel" by Teresa of Avila, translated by David Lewis, (Ch. XXV. "Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject"), 1904.

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• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Yoga, Stay Calm, Remaining Calm

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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• Fear is the highest fence.

  Dudley Nichols

  Fence, Highest

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• There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Refusal, Finding Out The Truth, Persistent

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• Feel the fear and do it anyway.

  Susan Jeffers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. (2007). “Embracing Uncertainty: Breakthrough Methods for Achieving Peace of Mind When Facing the Unknown”, p.3, Macmillan

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  Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Real

  "Fictional character: Cypher Raige". "After Earth", www.imdb.com. May 28, 2013.

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• A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Taken, Cutting, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

  Lee Child

  Scary, Steps, Rage

  Lee Child (2001). “Echo Burning: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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• The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, but the (the Christian) cured of the disease of fearing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Real, Evil

  Charles Spurgeon (2017). “God Always Cares”, p.20, Gideon House Books

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• When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

  George R. R. Martin

  Truth, Liars, Lying

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.220, Bantam

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• The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Pain, Science

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thinking

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.

  Judy Blume

  Inspirational, Adventure, Faces

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Dec 26, 2012

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• Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

  William E. Gladstone

  Trust, People, Politics

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• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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

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• Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Halloween, Eye, Funny Halloween

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.152, Collector's Library

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• He that hopes no good fears no ill.

  Thomas Fuller

  Ill

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• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Xenophobia, Racism, Tolerance

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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• Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

  Aesop

  Poverty, Midst, Plenty

  Aesop (2014). “The Aesop for Children”, p.28, First Avenue Editions

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