959 private quotes tagged fear

“There are many victories worse than a defeat.” — George Eliot

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“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.” — Khalil Gibran

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“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.” — Aeschylus

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“Excessive fear is always powerless.” — Aeschylus

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“When a match has equal partners then I fear not.” — Aeschylus

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“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.” — Samuel Butler

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“Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.” — Winston Churchill

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“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.” — Thomas Paine

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“Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.” — Warren Buffett

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“When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.” — Martin Luther

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“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.” — Voltaire

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“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.” — André Gide

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“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” — Bertrand Russell

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“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.” — Bill Gates

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“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” — Julius Caesar

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“Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.” — Andrew Cohen

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“The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.” — Charles Rangel

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“A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.” — Michael Morpurgo

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