Fear Quotes
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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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I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.
Jessica Chastain
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Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.
Jon Ronson
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Even though my brother and I loved scrumping - we loved the act of climbing trees and grabbing fruit - there was always fear we would be caught. We feared we'd be imprisoned, sent to Australia.
Jim Crace
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I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.
Philip Roth
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We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.
R. C. Sproul, Jr.
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People who cannot comfortably notice what is going on inside become vulnerable to respond to any sensory shift either by shutting down or by going into a panic—they develop a fear of fear itself.
Bessel van der Kolk
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The mark of fear is not easily removed.
Ernest Gaines
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It's imperative to realize that it is not necessary to try to get rid of fear in order to succeed. Rich and successful people have fear, rich and successful people have doubts, rich and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them. Unsuccessful people have fears, doubts, and worries, then let those feelings stop them.
T. Harv Eker
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There is no illusion great than fear.
Lao Tzu
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Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
William Shakespeare
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My mother never warned me not to do this or that for fear of being hurt. Of course I got hurt, but I was never afraid.
Katherine Stinson
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I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
Louise Brown
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How sweet to be an idiotAt my back With no fear of attack As much retaliation as a toy.
Neil Innes
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From fear to bonding with the audience to getting more open - that's what standup is. It humanises you.
Maysoon Zayid
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IIn a number of member states, particularly some older ones, there is a fear that economic reform will undermine social protection, ... Such fear is not only misplaced but counterproductive."
Charlie McCreevy
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I don't have to fear that if I do more comedy I'm not going to get to do everything I want. I'll get to do my 'Yentl.'
Ari Graynor
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I think a lot of moms get really scared that if they have a nanny that somehow the child is going to love them less and attach more to the nanny. But, I haven't had that fear.
Virginia Williams
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Wake up: This world that you dream holds nothing to fear.
Rumi
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So we become alive in a time of fear.
Nicki Minaj
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When you have decided that a thing ought to be done, and are doing it, never shun being seen doing it, even though the multitude should be likely to judge the matter amiss. For if you are not acting rightly, shun the act itself; if rightly, however, why fear misplaced censure? (172).
Epictetus
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How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.
Seth Godin
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Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.
Mahatma Gandhi