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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Arnold H. Glasgow

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Virgil

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Virgil

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot.

Malaysian Proverb

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

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's no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Irish Proverb

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

Les Brown

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Babe Ruth

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

Oprah Winfrey

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Sophocles

It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

Sophocles

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

He who fears will suffer, he already suffers from his fear.

Michel de Montaigne

The only thing to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Babe Ruth

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Confucius

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; Hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J. K. Rowling

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

J. K. Rowling

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Sir Francis Bacon

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.

Sir Francis Bacon

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Cyril Connolly

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Chinese Proverb

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Cyril Connolly

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

Jason Fried

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

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

My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated.

Tupac Shakur

Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.

Salvador Dali

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

John Buchan

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Publilius Syrus

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

We fear the thing we want the most.

Dr. Robert Anthony

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Marian Anderson

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

My fear was that I would be sold on to the Sunni or Islamist groups.

Rory Carroll

Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear.

Garth Brooks

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

James Anthony Froude

Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.

Joel Rosenberg

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

He had the greatest gift of all, the ability to love without fear.

Gloria Vanderbilt

We Mexicans don't fear death much. We're more interested in taking care of our cars than our lives.

Mario Perez

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

There is fear at Sun that this will expose too much to Microsoft . It is an appearance issue.

Jeffrey Kingston

We have fear of higher oil prices and the lower dollar against the yen.

Charles Reinhard

I have a fear of failure.

Joe Montana

We came out with no fear. We came out with fire, and we were ready to go.

Lauren Hoisington

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Fearing for their safety, the manager complied with the suspect?s demands.

Pedro Medina

The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.

Curt Goetz

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.

Dorothy Dix

They probably didn't want to put the generator outside for fear it would be stolen.

Crystal Holmes

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

Beneath every fear lies the pearl of hope.

Gabriella Goddard

That's the one I fear most.

Dan Turner

Was she sending a message of fear?

John Burris

They are slaves who fear to speak,For the fallen and the weak.

James Russell Lowell

...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Voltaire

Many slaves avoided the city. If they could get to a farming community, they could live in peace and not have a fear of being captured.

Glennette Tilley Turner

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.

Bible

Now the overwhelming fear among portfolio managers is being left behind.

Rich Bernstein

Named must your fear be before banish it you can.

Yoda

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

Tom Watson

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Gerald Brenan

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

Public tolerance for the settlers has declined, and even more significantly, fear of them has disappeared.

Amos Harel

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods.

Lucretius

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

John C. Maxwell

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

William Congreve

That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.

Don DeLillo

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

John Paul Jones

I see a fear here, and I sense it.

Richard Summers

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

Sterling Hayden

I gave my sample, I have nothing to fear and nothing to hide.

Carlo Colaiacovo

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

The greater the fear the nearer the danger.

Danish Proverb

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

We truly respect all our opponents. But honestly, these girls fear no one.

Mike Gutierrez

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

David Blaine

They are not backing off at all. They live with fear every day.

Blanca Gonzalez

This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but mean and ugly.

Jacob Atwood

I remember her eyes with joy -- you will [remember] with fear.

David Graham

Fear God and he will give you knowledge.

Quran

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

Joanna Field

Did you know destruction of the soul is not the ending to life: Fear not of the Antichrist.

Damian Marley

Our fear is we're going to get in and find nothing, that this whole thing is a sham.

Andrew Rowell

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

He just lived in constant fear for his life.

Andrew Rowell

We've got to get over that fear.

Michael Wilson

We won't rest until people feel confident that they can organize in their community without fear that there is a cop in it.

Wes Modes

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

Caecilius Statius

There is a lot of fear. People are just hoping the military will calm things down.

Johnson Honimae

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

These women, out of fear of reprisal, contacted Senator Allard for help.

Sean Conway

Slowly but surely, you're seeing the culture of fear dissipate in Raleigh.

Joe Sinsheimer

I've never seen him cry, ... He never shows fear. He's been a stellar patient.

George Rothbart

The key for those girls is confidence and playing without fear. They all did, even the ones who lost.

Amanda Johnson

Our greatest fear is that we're a step away from a referee being physically assaulted. That's where we are. That's the environment that's being created.

Lamell Mcmorris

I think it's kind of the fear of the unknown.

Dan Meyer

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

Rickie Lee Jones

We're going to see a little bit of early demand. The market's biggest fear is that we'll get an early, cold winter.

Phil Flynn

If he was living in fear he would have relayed that message.

Dwayne Johnson

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Benedict Spinoza

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Aleister Crowley

The deficiency in our law...makes (victims) subject to additional fear, frustration and anxiety.

Kerry Healey

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

John Kerry

My fear is, what's out there?

Commissioner Daniel Stermer

The fear is as we get close to $50, OPEC may step in. $50 is a number that will be difficult to break on the downside.

Nauman Barakat

As a food chemist, he had a real aversion to canned food because of the fear of botulism. Freezing had a lot of advantages.

Rich Maher

She's overcome her fear. She's very brave.

Chris Heacock

He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low, no pride.

John Bunyan

There is a fear of the unknown, ... I was the general manager for the chain, and it's one thing to manage someone else's company and another thing to be on your own.

Patrick Burke

Bernie: I'm sorry I am so late. Bollocksed up at work again, I fear. Millions down the drain.

Notting Hill

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

We never had a fear of pools before.

Michael Wenger

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.

Jacques Benigne Bossuel

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

I was afraid of my own fear. I was afraid of not being able to stand it. Everything is programmed to undo you as a human being.

Raul Rivero

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Deep faith eliminates fear.

Lech Walesa

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Robert Burns

I never doubted myself, or my teammates. I never had fear of inadequacy.

Quinnetta Claytor

You cannot track someone with this system, which is what everyone seems to fear. The way we designed it, that is not possible.

David Porter

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Mary Mccarthy

I'm not going to make any bold predictions, but we don't fear them.

Terry Hill

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

We were intimidated when we came up here. We had a little fear in our hearts and you can't do that.

Sam Sides

My guru had stern discipline, ... Gradually a fear complex grew in me.

S. Iyengar

'A warrior never worries about his fear.'

Carlos Castaneda

Yes, there's a lot of fear, but I happen to believe the love of God can overcome that.

Susan Russell

Fear drove everybody inside.

John Barrymore

Schools without Fear; Group Activities for Building Community.

Judy Brown

My fear coming into this was we had a long break, and the players had a couple of days off and the focus would not be there.

Jong Uichico

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Kurt Vonnegut

There is an element of fear that I detect in people's voices when they talk about this issue. That is alarming.

Julia Patterson

After most natural disasters, there is a fear that dead bodies will cause epidemics.

Oliver Morgan

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Henry Van Dyke

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

Terry Gross

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

Lucan

But that guy has no fear of anything like that. Bernard has got a special knack for it.

Mark Hagen

If software manufacturers and computer manufacturers act responsibly, they have nothing to fear.

Reed Kathrein

This is always a fear of ours in our family. Always a fear. There's nothing you can do but wait.

Amber Helms

An agreement will never ever, ever, ever be resolved by fear and intimidation.

Roger Toussaint

We want to see that fear in the running back's eyes and dominate the game.

Mike Peterson

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My fear was that people expected radical change because of the new contract. But no.

Christian Lacroix

My biggest fear is that the utilities will try to wheedle extra charges out of their customers to pay for this stuff.

Mike Twomey

That's the fear of the bloggers — that being part of the DLC is just accepting that we have to move to the right.

Dave Johnson

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People were screaming and panicking. The fear really was that the airplane would blow up.

Olivier Dubois

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

Ruby Dee

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

I think it's important that the community focus and not have this terror and fear.

Michael Bull

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Umberto Eco

I don't think within that context that there is anything legitimate academic freedom has to fear.

Bill Rammell

That is my fear. That if these laws pass in Congress, that is going to be tomorrow's America.

Partha Banerjee

Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.

Hebrew Proverb

Surfers are really conservative. More surfers fear change and are resistant to change.

Corey Davis

The entire black community of young men should not be in a position of fear through the entire duration of this investigation.

Jason Bogle

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Yoda

We are aware that some commentators fear that we are biting off more than we can chew.

Michael O'leary

My fear is that somebody may be attacked.

Joellen Dellamano

I have built my organization upon fear.

Al Capone

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

Herb Kelleher

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

Our biggest fear is that we won't be able to get back to our data center for an extended amount of time, so we set up systems that would make it accessible remotely.

Ross Mckenzie

I say fear must be followed by hope. Hope you do something about it. It's a call to action.

Elie Wiesel

I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Robert Bly

It's a legitimate fear that communities will change. Of course, the roads are coming regardless because the area is growing and changing.

Sarah Clarke

I have never been visited by the fear that he's stale, ... Through him, I get to bring to light a lot of things I think about, myself.

Kelsey Grammer