959 private quotes tagged fear

“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“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.” — Francis Bacon

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“Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.” — Elizabeth I

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“When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.” — Bell Hooks

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“I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.” — Taylor Swift

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“The fear of death comes from limited awareness.” — Deepak Chopra

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“The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.” — Dale Carnegie

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“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.” — Dale Carnegie

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“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

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“It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.” — Jodie Foster

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“Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.” — Audrey Hepburn

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“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.” — J. K. Rowling

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“My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'” — John Mayer

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“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.” — Dale Carnegie

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“I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.” — Taylor Swift

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“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.” — George S. Patton

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“Fear clogs faith liberates.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.” — Khalil Gibran

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“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.” — Lord Byron

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“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” — George S. Patton

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“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.” — Sophocles

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“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” — Harry S. Truman

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