Fear Quotes - Page 9

• Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

  Peter McWilliams

  Moved

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• Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Coward, Use

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Honesty, Acceptance

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.474, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I failed my way to success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Innovation

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• Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions.

  Harvey Dorfman

  Freedom, Thinking, Self

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• The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

  Martha Stout

  Sympathy, Compassion, People

  Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.107, Harmony

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  Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Daughter, Religious, Nature

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.196, University of Georgia Press

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• Fear is the passion of slaves.

  Patrick Henry

  4th Of July, Passion, American Revolution

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• Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

  John Calvin

  Sailing, Mind, Reason Why

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

  Sylvia Browne

  Weed, Rip, Creativity

  Sylvia Browne (2009). “Soul’s Perfection (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Funny, Civilization, People

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Business, People

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• First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

  John Dryden

  Death, Knows, Life And Death

  'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

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• Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

  Marvin Gaye

  Limits, Spirit, Sin

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• We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

  Sue Grafton

  Passion, Dark, People

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• The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Political, Mein Kampf, Politics

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

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• We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Way, Forget

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• Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

  Douglas Horton

  Action, Terrorism, Cures

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• I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

  Steve Irwin

  Nature, Koalas, Snakes

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

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• At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

  Jesse Jackson

  The End Of The Day, Division, Hell

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• My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Time, Long, Age

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Life, Courage, Giving

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• Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

  Franz Kafka

  Night, Dread

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

  Wangari Maathai

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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