fear
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘fear’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.” -Paul Sweeney
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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.” -Dustin Hoffman
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“What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.” -Sonia Johnson
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“Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.” -John Cheever
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“And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.” -Ian Rush
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“I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.” -Pierre Beaumarchais
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“A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.” -Nadine Gordimer
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“Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.” -Lou Brock
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“No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.” -Olive Schreiner
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“We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.” -Aulus Persius Flaccus
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“I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.” -Etty Hillesum
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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.” -Katharine Butler Hathaway
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“Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They’re afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.” -Fred Allen
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“There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.” -Luc de Clapiers
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“You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.” -Sharon Stone
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“I’m not at the point where I’d feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I’m the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone’s going to jump out and get me.” -Britney Spears
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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.” -Laura Schlessinger
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“Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.” -Phil Crosby
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“By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.” -Samuel Daniel
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“Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.” -Fernando Flores
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“It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.” -Georges Bernanos
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“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” -Marilyn Ferguson
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“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.” -Anatole France
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“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.” -Andre Gide
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“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.” -Eric Hoffer
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“The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.” -Josh Billings
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“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.” -Ovid
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“My ‘fear’ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.” -Franz Kafka
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“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.” -Brendan Francis
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“Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.” -Audrey Hepburn
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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.” -Rosa Parks
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“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
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“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
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