Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Arnold H. Glasgow
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Thomas Jefferson
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Thomas Jefferson
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Soren Kierkegaard
There's no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.
Irish Proverb
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
Martin Luther King Jr.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter
Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
Peter McWilliams
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
Peter McWilliams
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
Peter McWilliams
We fear the thing we want the most.
Dr. Robert Anthony
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Marian Anderson
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Norman Cousins
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
James Anthony Froude
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
Our fears always outnumber our dangers.
Latin Proverb
One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
Emily Dickinson
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
Dr. David M. Burns
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
George Sewell
I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'
Mike Tyson
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer
Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them.
Brendan Francis
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Francis Quarles
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch
Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
Joss Whedon
I was a little afraid of him; not the boy himself, but of what he seemed to be: the victim of the world.
William Saroyan
I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
Pamela Anderson
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve
Do you want to know the surefire way to stay anxious? Don't do the thing that makes you nervous!
Larina Kase
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Frances Moore Lappe
The greater the fear the nearer the danger.
Danish Proverb
Let any man show the world that he feels Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels: Let him fearlessly face it, 't will leave him alone: But 't will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone.
Owen Meredith
What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart.
Derrick Jensen
There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
Joanna Field
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
Pietro Metastasio
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.
Caecilius Statius
Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
Octave Mirbeau
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.
Alan Paton
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Michael Pritchard
Fear is the mother of foresight.
Thomas Hardy
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
Arthur Hugh Clough
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.
Alan Paton
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
Warren E. Burger
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
Marilyn Ferguson
Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.
William McFee
I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.
Neve Campbell
In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
Farrah Gray
At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.
Theodosia Garrison
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Fear is excitement without breath.
Robert Heller
Fear is the highest fence.
Dudley Nichols
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Arthur Wellesley
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
Frances Moore Lappe
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nevell Bovee
The mark of fear is not easily removed.
Ernest Gaines
If you're scared, buy a big dog and tie it around your waist.
Erik Ainge
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
Elizabeth Taylor
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard
There was an old man with a beard, Who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, Four larks and a wren Have all built their nests in my beard.
Edward Lear
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
Edvard Munch
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