Fear Quotes
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If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.
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Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move.
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Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.
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Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
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The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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Courage is not the absence of fear...
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My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.
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Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
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The reason for anger is always fear.
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Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
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Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
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Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
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A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.
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All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.
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By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
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Fire, fear, foes! Awake!
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.
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Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.
