We’ve collected the best Fear Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Frank Ocean, David Furnish, Jean Toomer, Edward Albert, Shakira. Use them as an inspiration.
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I know what it’s like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
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I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions – love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.
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God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you’re a star you’re dead already. You’re embalmed.
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Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.
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I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?
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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
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Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.
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I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
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Fear is real, but so is love.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It’s perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they’ll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
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The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Fear is not something we feel at Liverpool.
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I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
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Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
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Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don’t know if that’s healthy.
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Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.
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Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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Fear is unnecessary.
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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
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The Bible says to ‘fear not,’ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.
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We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
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I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
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I delight in what I fear.
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I like to do something I fear.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.
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He doesn’t know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn’t know the meaning of most words.
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What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
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You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful – just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
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The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it’s still our deepest longing – but it’s now also our deepest fear.
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Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
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The greatest want of the world is the want of men – men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
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Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.
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You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger – all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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The part that makes you unique is the bit people will like or fear, fall in love with, or try to avoid.
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Fear is excitement without breath.
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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True nobility is exempt from fear.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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I am grateful that I didn’t let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.
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I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.
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Embrace your fear. Imagine what you’re most afraid of, touch it and hold it so that you rob it of its power.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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You don’t have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won’t get better and that I won’t have time to practice. To be called a ‘jazz musician‘ – it’s a big responsibility.
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I’m not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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I don’t operate on fear, and I don’t let fear control me.
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.
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While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
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Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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Don’t let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder – but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual – and the soul of a people.
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There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.
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I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.
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I don’t fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.
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We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
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Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
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I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.
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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
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Exploiting people’s emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it’s not change, it’s partisanship. We don’t need partisanship. We don’t need demagoguery, we need solutions.
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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
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Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
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There is a fear of emotion in tennis.
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For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.
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When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
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Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
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Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
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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.
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
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Journalists typically don’t carry weapons, even in war zones, for fear of compromising their status as neutral observers. If you’re armed, the theory goes, other armed people will consider you a target.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
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One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn’t live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they’ve been brutalized for so long.
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Sailing is the closest I can get to nature – it’s adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.
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I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
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Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
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Fear nothing; attack everything.
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What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don’t fear.
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I have no fear of death. More important, I don’t fear life.
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Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
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If frightening sensations are not given the time and attention they need to move through the body and resolve or dissolve, the individual will continue to be gripped by fear.
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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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We can either be governed by fear – fear of immigrants, fear of Muslims, call the press the enemy of the people, tear kids away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border – or we can be governed by our ambitions and our aspirations and our desire to make the most out of all of us. And that’s America at its best.
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A lot of problems stem from a desire to avoid discomfort. For example, people who fear failure often avoid new challenges in an effort to keep anxiety at bay. Avoiding emotional discomfort, however, is usually a short-term solution that leads to long-term problems.
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Fear comes from your past observations. That fear settles inside you. It becomes your psyche. Something triggers it and it fuels that subconscious. There is no logic to it.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing ‘tyranny‘ of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it.
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Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
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When men don’t fear God, they give themselves to evil.
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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
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There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Fear is when we’re thinking about the past or thinking about the future, two things that do not exist. If we stay in the moment, do our best in the moment, enjoy the moment, there is no fear.
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Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word ‘fear’ from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can’t fail.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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I don’t think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.
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I’m always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don’t get too comfortable.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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I’m very much afraid of being mad – that’s my one fear.
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The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt the habit of overthinking, self-doubt, and fear.
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The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They’re afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
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The deepest fear we have, ‘the fear beneath all fears,’ is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It’s this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.
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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
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Freedom is contagious. That’s why despots fear it so much.
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When you have no fear, the possibilities are endless.
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God helps those who fear Him.
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I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
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In the ring, I never really knew fear.
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Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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Don’t fear change – embrace it.
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I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
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Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
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Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
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We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
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My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.
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Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.
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He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
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We must not be afraid to define our enemy. It is Islamic extremist terrorism. I did not say all of Islam. I said Islamic extremist terrorism. Failing to identify them properly maligns decent Muslims around the world. It also sets up a fear of being politically incorrect that can have serious consequences. And it has.
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I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere – and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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A lot of what I’ve done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise – the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there’s a pearl inside.
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Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others – its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
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Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.
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I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.
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Government should fear the people, not the other way around.
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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.
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I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
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He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
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What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
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Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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I have a son, who is a… not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
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You have to get outside of your comfort zone if you’re going to make significant changes in your life, and since few things scare people like the unknown, feeling fear is an excellent sign that you’re on the right track.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.
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This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won’t get it back later.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
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I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.
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Fear is exciting for me.
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War is fear cloaked in courage.
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There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
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Once we’re willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was ‘safe,’ we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.
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I don’t fear aging. It’s natural, and I can’t stop it!
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The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway.
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Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
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Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.
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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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It’s fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.
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The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
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But by reframing the learning process and focusing on the cool end goal, the fear of failure is often taken off the table, and learning just comes more naturally.
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Sometimes the point isn’t to make people believe a lie – it’s to make people fear the liar.
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I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
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Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.
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Action conquers fear.
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Fear will make you stingy.
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Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.
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Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
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It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
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We fear the thing we want the most.
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Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
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When you’re fearful, you stumble.
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We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
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It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
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Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.
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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
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Feel the fear, and do it anyway. That’s the mentality. Even if you’re scared, just do it.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
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I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
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Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
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We only fear what we don’t understand, and I hate to be scared.
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Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that – given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind – chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
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Follow your heart and fear does not exist.
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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I wish to be a martyr, and I don’t fear death.
482
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
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There seemed to be endless obstacles… it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
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Every game, you’ve got to play with no fear.
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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Don’t do anything for fear, because fear will never do anything for you.
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Uncertainty always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.
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Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
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I think it’s no secret that I’ve tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don’t act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
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Embrace the fear and go for it. That’s what I do. I don’t run from it – I embrace the fear.
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Fear and hope are alike underneath.
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
