Fear Quotes
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The mere fact that Tommy Atkins saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.
Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Erica Jong
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It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.
Steve Berry
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There is always a sense of fear in everything I do. It doesn’t look like I am afraid, but I am always pushing myself. It is really difficult for me to be up here.” I reflected, “A witness can see how uncomfortable you feel pushing yourself to be here,” and she nodded.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Is almost a good enough reason for fear?
Beth Revis
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"Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it".
Elizabeth Goudge
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Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till now, what I’m going to do — they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes. As I sit there under the shining night sky, again a violent fear takes hold of me. My heart’s pounding a mile a minute, and I can barely breathe. All these millions of stars looking down on me, and I’ve never given them more than a passing thought before. Not just the stars — how many other things haven’t I noticed in the world, things I know nothing about?
Haruki Murakami
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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
Sherman Alexie
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The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.
Martin Luther
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As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.
Diane Ackerman
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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Virgil
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I have a fear of being broke. That's what I have a fear of. I'm not kidding.
Loni Love
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I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.
Caroline Myss
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People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
Cate Blanchett
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When you really make things that really challenge the status quo or challenge issues, and you do it artistically, and you do it with no fear, people are listening.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?
Dan Barker
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Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.
Sarah Rees Brennan