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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.
Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened.
Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.
Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.
Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.
The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.
Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.
The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.
Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.
Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.
All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.
You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.
An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.
It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.
The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.
... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.
If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.
There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.